The summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture is itself over 500 pages long. We take a first look with Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law University, and what it means that much of the report on Bush-era "enhanced interrogation techniques" has finally been declassified. 

.@SenFeinstein: "It is worth remembering the pervasive fear in late 2001 and how immediate the threat felt." Report: http://t.co/PxBvhPheME

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First: the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques were not an effective way of getting information, says @SenFeinstein.

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The coercive interrogation program was "far more brutal" than many were led to believe. @SenFeinstein on the CIA's use of torture.

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No actionable intelligence that was "otherwise unavailable" was obtained from torture. "Not obtained", @SenFeinstein repeats.

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