It sounds like the Congress was rather seriously misled by the Bush administration on the subject of the use of torture. If you listen to all the allegations being made about “who knew what and when” and what the documents reportedly reveal, it is apparent that members of Congress were “papered” - a deceptive tactic, which, under the guise of providing full disclosure, is designed to conceal the truth. No doubt the investigation will uncover that buried somewhere in the voluminous documents of the security briefings of the CIA to Congress there will be a some oblique reference (e.g., a footnote in a cited study report) on the effectiveness of “waterboarding” characterized, euphemistically, in memoranda under “enhanced interrogation techniques”; which cryptic reference will be incorporated in carefully crafted letters of counsel that, while not directly representing the truth of the matter, at least imply that such measures are necessary, authorized and lawful. In the morals of the marketplace, the so-called “fine print” is often shrugged off as “sharp business practice”; however such deception can have no place in the councils of government and the law. If there is any truth to what is being asserted, there are some Department of Justice lawyers (e.g., John Yoo) that are in “deep kaka.”