By Debra Sweet

People working to expose the truth on the torture camps -- including Guantanamo, Bagram, but some still secret "black sites" -- have been demanding for years that the Senate Intelligence Committee's report of their investigation be made public.  On Wednesday the still-classified content of the report was making headlines, with MSNBC saying "CIA Lied About Torture to Justify Using It":

A Senate intelligence committee investigation found that the Central Intelligence Agency employed brutal interrogation methods that turned out to be largely useless and then lied about their effectiveness, according toThe Washington Post.

It's not news that Dianne Feinstein, that most prominent backer of all things NSA, and who heads the Senate Committee, was in on the torture virtually from the beginning, as a Congressional leader who was briefed on it. Now she's all, "that never should have happened" — but it was the Democrats in power — in collusion with the Bush Regime who allowed and fostered torture in the name of "national security."

The most  crucial part of this story is still unfolding.  More infighting over the potential that revelations could lead to more investigation -- which could, if wemount the requisite demand for it -- mean prosecution for those at the top of the torture regime.  It would take a huge political fight, but it's the one we need to expose the utter illegitimacy of what the U.S. did -- and is still doing.

Is anyone at the top who was responsible for torture going to be investigated, charged, prosecuted or imprisoned? There is disagreement at some levels of the government over this -- but it's going to take a much louder outcry from people to bust this huge web of lies open.  It's time, and it matters.

Thanks to the National Religious Campaign Against Torture for staying on this, and getting religious leaders to demand the report's release to the public.