Declassifying the CIA's Bush-era atrocities will prove what we already knew. Now comes the part we must never forget
Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee will finally vote on whether to make public a disputed report on years of torture conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency. They should vote to declassify this landmark document, as much for what it will remind us as that which we can never know.
Even if only parts of the 6,300-page investigation would ever see the light of the day (and under CIA supervision at that), it would reportedly provide valuable evidence that waterboarding and other methods applied by the Bush administration provided no key information in the hunt of Osama bin Laden indeed, that America's so-called enhanced interrogation techniques "yielded little, if any, significant intelligence" at all.