The Torture Report: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released the highly anticipated 500-page summary of its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program. It provides a sobering glimpse into one of the darkest chapters in the U.S. government's history. This is the 500 page summary that has been released to the public, the 6800 page full-report is still confidential and in the process of being redacted. Executive Summary, Findings and Conclusions -- Also available are the Additional Views and the Minority & Additional Minority Views.

After a grueling 5-year investigation, Senate investigators reveal torrid details of the systemic and individual failures by the agency personnel who ran the "enhanced interrogation program" -- the government's euphemism for systematic torture -- during the George W. Bush administration. The program involved capturing terrorism suspects and shipping them to secret overseas prisons, where they were subjected to techniques such as waterboarding (and worse).