CIA and FBI win blackout on rendition claims The ruling emerged as Downing Street called for police to interview former Labour ministers including former Home Secretary Jack Straw over the alleged rendition and torture of a Libyan critic of Colonel Gaddafi. Tony Blair could also be questioned, according to the Daily Mail. The Metropolitan Police are investigating claims that MI6 tipped off the CIA about the location of Abdel Hakim Belhadj and his wife in 2004 before Mr Blair signed the deal in the desert with Gaddafi. Asked if police should interview former ministers, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said: "They need to follow the evidence wherever it takes them." MPs investigating UK complicity in torture made requests to the CIA for details on 43 separate topics in late 2008, focusing on "various aspects of the US and the UK's involvement in extraordinary rendition, secret detention, coercive interrogation of suspected terrorists and the sources of information about alleged terrorist plots." The FBI released some information before refusing further disclosures. A judge has now ruled MPs are representatives of a foreign government and not independent legislators.