1. Bush administration officials displayed a minimum of due diligence before embarking on their torture program.

2. Khalid Sheik Muhammad and Abu Zubaydah were waterboarded 266 times.

3. Intelligence officals argue: “There was no actionable intelligence gained from using enhanced interrogation techniques on Abu Zubaydah that wasn’t, or couldn’t have been, gained from regular tactics.”

4. One of the main motivations for toture? “The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime…“