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Frida Ghitis: We've been groping for the facts surrounding the torture program created and implemented by the Bush administration.
She says for 20 years, the hunt for its perpetrators, the places where they brutalized detainees, and the techniques they used has been underway.
Ghitis says efforts to keep that blindfold in place in the name of "national security" have helped sustain darkness over light.
She writes: The search for the truth has not been in vain, but the tide may truly be turning.
Julian Zelizer: Sen. Feinstein launched an in-depth investigation into the CIA's torture program.
He says it dismantled CIA's justification for its EITs, which rested on "claims of their effectiveness" Zelizer says film "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "The Forever Prisoner" were early exposés of cruelty and mistreatment.
Frida Ghitis: Abu Zubaydah was tortured at CIA black sites and at Guantánamo.
She says torturers poured water up his nose and down his throat until he choked and gagged as it filled his lungs.
Ghitis says the U.S. Supreme Court in October 2021, justices of the Supreme Court for the first time openly discussed his treatment, using the word "torture".
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Article tone
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