Abstract
In December 2014, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture was released to the public. The 600-page report (a redacted summary of the still-classified 6000-page report) documents in disturbing detail the use by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of physicians, lawyers, and psychologists in its post-9/11 torture program at more than a dozen “black sites,” or secret prisons, around the world.1 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, has called the report “courageous and commendable,” while condemning the torture program it details and noting that “torture cannot be amnestied” and should not be permitted to . . .
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