The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." -Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of the "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, " a U.S. Senate investigation -- a.k.a., The Torture Report.Based on more than six million pages of classified CIA documents, this report details the establishment of a covert CIA program to secretly detain and interrogate suspected terrorists. Among other matters, the report describes the evolution of the CIA program, the use of the CIA's so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques, " and how the CIA misrepresented the program to the White House, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the American people.Over five years in the making, it is presented here in a meticulously formatted and highly readable edition, exactly as redacted and released by the United States government on December 9, 2014.