After Passage Of The Detainee Treatment Act, OLC Issues Opinion On CIA Conditions Of Confinement

The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program and its use of torture during interrogation in U.S. government bulletins on detainees in CIA custody. The more-than 6,700-page report (including 38,000 footnotes) details the history of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program and the Committee's 20 findings and conclusions. On December 9, 2014, the SSCI released a 525-page portion that consisted of key findings and an executive summary of the full report. It took more than five years to complete. The full unredacted report remains classified.

Todays summary: After Passage Of The Detainee Treatment Act, OLC Issues Opinion On CIA Conditions Of Confinement, Withdraws Opinion On The CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques After The US Supreme Court Case Of Hamdan vs Rumsfeld