--- description: "This report is the 'Frozen' of senate intelligence CIA clandestine redacted torture reports — 'let me go, let me go!'" title: Jon Stewart: Senate Torture Report Is a 'Deluge of Depravity' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdc15af3654165f/69876df15f570fec6bb141ad/jon-stewart-senate-torture-report.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Jon Stewart Take Down the Senate Torture Report  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 10, 2014 1:21 PM CUT  Daily Show  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 10, 2014 1:21 PM CUT Jon Stewart’s reaction to the [Senate Intelligence Committee’s new report on the CIA’s torture program](http://time.com/3625453/torture-report-senate-cia-interrogation/ "undefined") could be summed with the famous projectile vomiting scene from _Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life._ “I just made this movie \[_Rosewater_\] about a guy who triumphs over the inhuman conditions in his imprisonment in an authoritarian country, and I don’t think they did half that sh-t to \[Maziar Bahari\],” _The Daily Show host_ said. “That was probably worse because Maziar was completely innocent.” Not quite. The Tuesday torture report — which included descriptions of detainees undergoing extreme sleep deprivation and rectally infused meals — found that 26 of the 119 individuals held by the CIA throughout the program were wrongfully detained. Stewart also took down the report’s acknowledgement that having the contractors evaluate the detainees’ well-being and mental states was a “conflict of interest.” “I’m actually glad you threw in a little common everyday bureaucratic corruption to try and bring another flavor to this deluge of depravity,” Stewart said. Watch the full clip below. [**The Daily Show**](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/ "undefined") Get More: [Daily Show Full Episodes](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/ "undefined"),[The Daily Show on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow "undefined"),[Daily Show Video Archive](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3627630/cia-torture-report-jon-stewart/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3627630/cia-torture-report-jon-stewart/"},"headline":"Watch Jon Stewart Take Down the Senate Torture Report","datePublished":"2014-12-10T13:21:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:43:35.198Z","description":"\"This report is the Frozen of senate intelligence CIA clandestine redacted torture reports — let me go, let me go!\"","url":"https://time.com/3627630/cia-torture-report-jon-stewart/","keywords":["Senate","Television","CIA","Dianne Feinstein","Jon Stewart","Daily Show","Senate Torture Report"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdc15af3654165f/69876df15f570fec6bb141ad/jon-stewart-senate-torture-report.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fdc15af3654165f/69876df15f570fec6bb141ad/jon-stewart-senate-torture-report.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon Stewart senate torture report","caption":"","creditText":"Daily Show","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3627630/cia-torture-report-jon-stewart/","name":"Watch Jon Stewart Take Down the Senate Torture Report"}}]}] ```