The release of the 600-page report summary confirmed our worst suspicions.

After a very Feinstein-ish introduction, filled with self-exculpatory finger-wagging and written in first-person high-drama mode, we learn:

1) It didn't work. Out of at least 119 detainees held at secret CIA dungeons 39 were tortured: 7 of these produced no intelligence. None produced any intelligence that couldn't have been gotten by legal means. Alan Dershowitz is going to be very disappointed to learn that, as the report puts it, "At no time did the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of imminent threat intelligence, such as the hypothetical 'ticking time bomb' information that many believe was the justification for the use of these techniques."

2) They tortured innocents. Much of the public support for the torture program comes from the false impression that all of these people were "bad guys" who were out to hurt Americans, but the Senate report reveals that's just not the case. Twenty-six out of 119 prisoners were held "wrongfully." As the report puts it: "Detainees often remained in custody for months after the CIA determined that they did not meet the [legal] standard. CIA records provide insufficient information to justify the detention of many other detainees."

3) Interrogations were "brutal and far worse" than the CIA maintained. One interrogator played "Russian roulette" with a detainee – holding a gun with one bullet in the chamber to the prisoner's head and periodically pulling the trigger. Sexual torture was employed, with special attention to the rectal area (it's apparently a CIA thing).