Do you believe the U.S. should continue to use the interrogation tactics summarized in the Senate Intel Comm report released 12/9?

No, I do not!  Brutal torture of detainees is against our laws for handling “prisoners of war”, hence the use of “black sites” in other countries to carry out such ruthless, controversial practices.  The Senate report catalogs a wide range of what CIA officials refer to as “enhanced interrogation techniques”, and the report charges that a decade of such harsh mistreatments failed to yield significant valuable information, and that the CIA deceived “the nation about the effectiveness of its techniques”.  The CIA told Congress in 1989 that “inhumane physical and psychological techniques are counter-productive because they do not produce intelligence and will probably result in false answers”, but President George W.  Bush “approved the program through a covert finding in 2002, but he wasn’t briefed by the CIA about the details until 2006”.   CIA Director John Brennan has recently said “the agency made mistakes and has learned from them”.  I agree with President Obama that these past practices, which he had ended, “are contrary to our values…. and should never be resorted to again”.