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After the revelation of CIA sponsored torture in the 1970s and the subsequent outcry, the CIA largely stopped its own interrogations under torture and throughout the 1980s and 1990s " outsourced " such interrogation through renditions of prisoners to third world allies, often called torture-by-proxy.

But in the furor over the attacks on 9 / 11 American authorities cast aside scruples, legally authorizing some forms of interrogation by torture under euphamisms such as " enhanced interrogation " or " interrogation in depth " to collect intelligence on Al Quaeda, starting in 2002.

Ultimately the CIA, the US military, and their contract employees tortured untold thousands at Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and secret black site prisons scatttered around the globe, according to a bipartisan U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee report.

Whether these interrogations under torture produced useful information is hotly debated.