“Release torture report to public,” by Rev. Jay Schmidt, Omaha World Herald, November 20, 2013.

We need transparency in our government if we are to act responsibly as citizens. Thanks to the in-depth work of the Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment, a new report informs us that our government engaged in torture — and there is no evidence that it resulted in reliable intelligence.

The task force reviewed hundreds of pages of publicly available documents and interviewed eye witnesses. U.S. officials authorized — and their representatives then used — interrogation techniques on detainees that our country had earlier condemned as illegal when used by others. Torture is immoral, harming the tortured and the torturer alike...

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