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Read in full: Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture
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Read in full: Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released a long-awaited report on Tuesday into the use of torture by the CIA in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The report contains graphic and previously unknown details of the agency's "enhanced interrogation program," and suggests that the techniques used were in fact far more brutal than it had previously admitted.

Another key finding was that the intelligence gleaned from using these methods was of little use for counterterror operations, and in fact may have been counterproductive.

Read the full report here:

This article originally appeared on GlobalPost.

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