--- title: Torture Report: Here's What Dianne Feinstein Said in Senate Speech description: In releasing a report on the CIA's interrogation programs, Sen. Dianne Feinstein called it a "stain on our values and on our history." canonical: https://time.com/3625560/torture-report-heres-what-dianne-feinstein-said/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-09T17:08:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T09:02:15.422Z article:section: Politics og:title: Torture Report: Here's What Dianne Feinstein Said in Senate Speech og:description: In releasing a report on the CIA's interrogation programs, Sen. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=70950761-a423-4500-9b03-b625649125cd&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report [Watch (HLS stream): Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PgrKdhsm.m3u8) (0:52)  _Published 2014-12-09. Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report_ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 9, 2014 5:08 PM UTC Dianne Feinstein on Torture Report by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 9, 2014 5:08 PM UTC Sen. Dianne Feinstein called the practices detailed in the [declassified report](http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf) on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation program a “stain on our values and on our history.” The California Democrat spoke passionately on the Senate floor Tuesday morning as the 600-page report detailing the CIA’s post 9/11-era detainee practices, including torture was released. The critical [report](http://time.com/3625453/torture-report-senate-cia-interrogation/) finds that the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” including waterboarding, which the UN says should be classified as torture, and sleep deprivation was “not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees.” The report also found that the CIA’s detention sites were poor and the agency provided inaccurate information about the program to the federal government. “The implications of this report are profound,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said Tuesday, speaking on the Senate floor. “Not only is torture wrong, but it doesn’t work.” The Senate Intelligence Committee has faced an uphill battle to release parts of the report, which runs about 6,000 pages in total. Senate Democrats and the CIA have gone back and forth about how much of the report should be released. At one point, Sen. Feinstein accused the CIA of spying on committee members working to declassify documents. In July, CIA Director John Brennan apologized for the spying. The Pentagon announced last week they had begun warning combat troops to prepare for any backlash from the report. NBC News reported Monday that about 2,000 Marines are on alert in and around the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea. On Tuesday, Sen. Feinstein said she had gone back and forth over whether the committee should delay the release of the report given the instability across many parts of the world. ”There may never be a right time to release the report,”Feinstein said, but she added that the report is “too important to shelve indefinitely.” ## Transcript [00:00] This clearly is a period of turmoil and instability in [00:04] many parts of the world. Unfortunately, that's going to [00:08] continue for the fe, foreseeable future, whether this [00:12] report is released or not. It shows that the CI's, [00:16] A's actions a decade ago. Are a stain [00:20] on our value and on our history. The release of this [00:24] 500 page summary cannot remove that stain but [00:29] it can and does say to our people, and the world, that [00:33] America is big enough to admit when it's wrong. And [00:37] confident enough to learn from its mistakes. 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