UPDATE: Congress fails to hold executive branch accountable for its massive violations of human rights as documented in the released summary of the CIA Torture Report, but passes sanctions on Venezuela for "human rights violations." http://news.antiwar.com/2014/12/11/cia-chief-slams-release-of-torture-report-summary/print/
and http://news.antiwar.com/2014/12/11/congress-passes-bill-to-sanction-venezuela/

Readers have asked for my take on the CIA torture report. There is so much information and commentary available that it is unnecessary.

Igor Volsky http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40428.htm provides a concise summary. President George W. Bush signed off on torture and then told the
gullible people that "this government does not torture people." The torture was horrific.
The CIA even tortured its own informers. Two American psychologists who designed the torture program were paid $81 million.

CIA torturers received cash awards for "consistently superior work" when their innocent victims died. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40431.htm

The US government involved 54 countries in its torture program. The rendition program sent detainees to other countries where they were tortured in secret "black sites.'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40435.htm