Sir Gerald Howarth, who was sacked by David Cameron as minister for international security strategy in 2012, has ruled out any British involvement in torture, speaking to Premier, he said: "these are not the practices that we would resort to in the United Kingdom."
British officials claim any requests to alter the report would have only been for "national security reasons", despite earlier reports quoting one Downing Street official denying there had been redaction requests.
The published report, which looked at the treatment of detainees in the years after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, is a 525-page summary of a 6,000-page document produced by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The full document remains classified.
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate committee, said CIA tactics, which included repeated waterboarding, slapping, stress positions and sleep deprivation amounted to torture.
Sir Gerald, a Christian, said the UK government may not have be privy to all the necessary information because the coalition wasn't in power at the time: "Much of this occurred at the time when we were not in government and we don't have access to the papers of the previous administration, so there are practical considerations here."
Referring to the report, the Conservative MP for Aldershot said some in the CIA had gone "beyond what is acceptable," in terms of torture.
However, he blamed the UK media for what he dubbed the 'breaking news brigade' for any perceived mistakes by officials in Downing Street , saying: "If the initial reaction of Number 10, based on the best information they had immediately available to them then, has since been changed, well fair enough.
"But there is a real problem with modern media requiring us as politicians, as leaders, to give instant answers to everything."
Sir Malcolm Rifkind who chairs the Intelligence and Security Committee has also suggested there was no evidence of British involvement in torture, saying: "You have got to be very clear what the allegations against the United Kingdom have been from some quarters.
"In the United States it's about CIA officials torturing their detainees. There's virtually no suggestion that British intelligence was actually physically involved in torturing people, that's very important."
On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he would be open to a full judicial inquiry if the committee failed to answer key questions.
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