This Report, in Full, Should be Released.

The Senate report on the CIA interrogation program seems to show that the use of the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" were more severe and widespread than we have been led to believe and also highlights what I think is a particularly meaningful aspect--it just wasn't effective. It was done for misplaced motivations and to get results that did not have to do with getting information that was not known. I don't know to what extent it would shed more light on what had taken place than previous journalism has exposed, but I do think it would be appropriate for there to be an official recognition of it.

It isn't a bright and rosy picture of this country, but it's the only way forward.  Former Vice-President Cheney said he'd be okay with waterboarding again. Former President Bush said he'd authorize it all over again.  And why not, so long as they can claim they were trying to save lives? When we might know very well what they were after--the foregone conclusion that led to a war we never would have wanted. Except they managed to make so many things so plausible.

I do not think we should accept this in silence. And I really don't think openness about these practices now could do the US reputation much more harm than has already been done.