The Senate Torture Report: Was It Worth It?

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The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture benefits no one but our enemies and politicians looking to re-litigate previous presidential administrations.

By Tom Nichols DECEMBER 11, 2014

 

In the 1975 spy thriller “Three Days of the Condor,” a hunted and betrayed Central Intelligence Agency analyst (played—of course—by Robert Redford) realizes he has discovered a rogue operation within the agency. With nowhere else to turn, he goes public. At the end of the film, Redford meets Cliff Robertson, who plays the CIA functionary assigned to bring him in, on a Manhattan street. “Go home,” Redford tells the career spook. “They’ve got it all. Don’t you know where we are?”

 

Robertson looks up and realizes they’re standing in front of The New York Times’offices. “You dumb son of a bitch,” he says, in a heavy, pained voice. “You’ve done more damage than you know.”