This post first appeared at Truthout . (Photo: takomabibelot /flickr CC 2.0 )After years of the Obama administration’s foot-dragging, obfuscation and threats, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “Study of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program” has finally flopped onto the Senate presiding officer’s desk like a landed carp. The present writer will take as a given the veracity of its three main findings: that the United States engaged in practices both legally and commonly definable as torture; that the actionable intelligence these practices produced was negligible; and that the practices tainted the moral prestige of the United States government in...
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