A leaked copy of part of the Senate's report on CIA torture says that the CIA tortured lots of people and went beyond what it had got approval for.

That the CIA lied to the rest of the US government about its torture practices does not seem implausible to me. However, we must not let this exonerate Bush, who has already admitted approving some kinds of torture.

The CIA also seems to have lied about how many prisoners it held.

When the CIA says it released a prisoner, I wonder what that means. Was that person freed? Released to some other prison? Released to a cemetery? Without a thorough investigation of the facts, we must not suppose that words used the CIA mean what we would normally expect.

Here's the text that was leaked.