'America's day of shame,' Britain reacts to the torture report

LONDON -- "Torture: The stain on America."

That's just one of many headlines in British newspapers Wednesday, covering the findings of the CIA torture report.

Reaction to it has dominated news programmes and social media, with both #CIA and #torturereport trending across the UK on Twitter as people discussed the fallout.

The front pages

Today's front page - CIA agents 'should be charged' over torture pic.twitter.com/PgCrQzSn9A— The Times of London (@thetimes) December 10, 2014

Wednesday's Daily Telegraph front page: 'CIA lied over threat to Britain to justify torture' pic.twitter.com/qc5ajNvHSK— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 9, 2014

Wednesday's @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/t6RAw6I4lD— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) December 9, 2014

The Guardian front page, Wednesday 10 December 2014 – Torture: the stain on America pic.twitter.com/NbO7DVQSHa— The Guardian (@guardian) December 10, 2014

+++ AMERICA'S DAY OF SHAME. This morning's @Independent front page: pic.twitter.com/FVqm5g0hwp +++— amol rajan (@amolrajan) December 10, 2014

The political reaction

"After 9/11 there were things that happened that were wrong - and we should be clear about the fact they were wrong," Prime Minister David Cameron said speaking to reporters Tuesday evening.

He said he's satisfied after the Gibson inquiry, which looked at allegations of wrongdoing by UK intelligence agencies, that the British system is dealing with the questions raised in it.

"I am confident this issue has been dealt with from a British perspective and I think I can reassure the British public about that. But overall we should be clear torture is wrong."

Jack Straw who was Tony Blair's Foreign Secretary during the period of time the report covers told Channel 4 News that: "The British government did not approve any of this: black prisons, interrogations techniques, like waterboarding etc. Nor was it ever our policy to be involved in the unlawful removal of suspects from one jurisdiction to another."

The former detainee's response

Mozzam Begg, who spent three years in Guantanamo Bay after being detained in Pakistan in January 2002 and taken to Bagram internment centre in Afghanistan, where he was held for about a year, said the problem the report highlighted was one of accountability. Begg now lives in Birmingham.

4 13yrs we said it, our lawyers said it, ex-soldiers said it. Finally, the culprits said it. Time to free the rest & apologise. #CIAReport— Moazzam Begg (@Moazzam_Begg) December 10, 2014

In an interview on Sky News, he called for people to be charged.

“Former Guantanamo detainee @Moazzam_Begg says there must be prosecutions over the CIA's use oftorture http://t.co/BXbeWj6rMq” @rustyrockets— Fatima Barkatulla (@FatimaBarkatula) December 9, 2014