Senate Committee Votes to Declassify Parts of CIA Torture Report

After years of inquiry, $40m in expenses and an unprecedented clash with the Central Intelligence Agency, the Senate intelligence committee voted on Thursday to declassify portions of a study into the agency’s use of torture on detainees suspected of being involved in terrorism.

The landmark 11-3 vote now places the Obama administration back at the center of an inherited controversy that it has sought for over five years to escape.

That controversy has immediate implications for the military tribunals of the 9/11 defendants at Guantánamo Bay, several of whom were subjected to the abuse.

Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California, a public champion of the investigation, called its findings “shocking” and the CIA’s behavior “in stark contrast to our values as a nation”.

“This nation admits its errors, as painful as they may be,” Feinstein said in a short statement following the vote, which took place in a secret session.

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