THE chairwoman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said yesterday the Bush administration may have broken the law if it ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counter-terrorism programme.

A US intelligence chief says waterboarding “would be torture” if used against him or if someone under interrogation was actually taking water into their lungs.

The weapons inspector given the task of finding Saddam Hussein’s much-vaunted weapons of mass destruction tonight declared that he had found none.