The CIA said the torture didn't bring up any information they didn't knew already, this was just a vengeance campaign, not even vengeance, just pure evil
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston? By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." --- Book- Nineteen Eighty-Four
'You know, torture is the method of choice of the lazy, the stupid and the pseudo-tough. And that should not be the United States. No matter how you define torture. It's unconstitutional, it violates statutes, it violates the UCMJ, it violates Common Article 3, it violates what your mother taught you and it violates what you learned in kindergarten. And we ought not be even close to it.' ~Rear Admiral John Hutson
For most outsiders, the US is in denial over its own “evil doing” around the world.
It truly boggles my mind that Gen Z and younger aren't taught very much about 9/11 when it very much shaped the modern world. It changed how Americans viewed their politics AND THEIR RELATIONS TO TORTURING PEOPLE