Ineffective and Brutal - just some of the findings of a Senate report into the practices of the CIA's interrogation program post 9-11.
The Intelligence Committee report accuses the CIA of both misleading Congress and the public about its actions over several years.
The White House says it welcomes the report, even though some Republican's believe it could lead to revenge attacks against U.S. facilities and personnel overseas.
FSN's Washington correspondent, Kevin McAleese has this report
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It was the report America's Central intelligence Agency were dreading.
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Introducing the report, Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein who said the multi-year project into the CIA enhanced interrogation and detention program involved
6 million documents of information, boiled down to a 6000 page final report from which only a summary will be made public.
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The heavily redacted findings have sent shock waves through the United States poltical and intelligence community, with the revelation that severe torture techniques were used to little effect during George W Bush's post-9-11 war on terror.
The CIA did hit back however with a statement from the current Agency Director saying the methods used against some of the 119 detainees helped thwart attacks and save American lives.
US senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war who was himself tortured during the Vietnam conflict, threw his full support behind the release of the Senate's findings.
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McCain's assessment is backed by political science professor Dr. John Schiemann, an expert in interrogation at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
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In a statement President Obama, who ended the enhanced interrogation program when he took office in 2009, said the treatment of some detainees after 9-11 violated basic American values and that he hoped the report would see the these techniques stay where they belong - in the past.