Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees

LONDON (AP) — A former British spy chief says United States intelligence agencies misled allies, including Britain, over its mistreatment of suspected terrorists.

Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of the country's domestic spy agency MI5, says the U.S. deliberately suppressed details of its harsh handling of some detainees, including accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Britain's spy agencies have come under heavy criticism over their alleged collusion in the torture overseas of terrorist suspects.

Giving a lecture at the House of Lords Tuesday, Manningham-Buller said she only learned Mohammed was waterboarded after she retired in 2007.

She acknowledged that British spies had been too slow to detect a change in U.S. policy on detainees.