On April 16, 2013, after two years of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Detainee Treatment sponsored by The Constitution Project issued its more than 500 page report on the interrogation and treatment of post-9/11 detainees.

Key findings of the Task Force:

• The United States indisputably engaged in torture of post-9/11 detainees in violation of U.S. and international law.
• The decision to use torture came from our top political leaders, including President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.
• The Task Force found that “the arguments that the nation did not engage in torture and that much of what occurred should be defined as something less than torture are not credible.”
• The U.S. used interrogation techniques that it had previously condemned as illegal when used by others, including waterboarding, stress positions, extended sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and prolonged solitary confinement.
• Read more in NRCAT's two-page summary of the report.

Get Involved

Please email your Senators today to ask them to support release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA's use of torture. The report is the product of a more than three-year investigation into the use of torture and it is said to be the most comprehensive document yet produced on the issue.  We need it made public!

The Senate Intelligence Committee report, approved in a bipartisan vote in December 2012, is believed to describe shocking acts of torture and to explain how the use of torture was approved.  Further, it is said to show that torture had a long-term negative effect on our security.  These are the facts that the public needs to know.

The vote will likely occur this fall, so it is crucial to contact your Senators now.

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