Report finds CIA interrogation techniques "amounting to torture"

After five years of research, a CIA secret is out of the shadows.

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report says the CIA's harsh interrogation program for terrorism suspects and its methods were far more brutal than the agency acknowledged.

Committee chair Dianne Feinstein led the investigation.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) DIANNE FEINSTEIN, CHAIRMAN OF SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, SAYING:

"The report released today examines the CIA's secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals and the use of coercive interrogation techniques, in some cases amounting to torture."

The program began after the 9/11 attacks, in which more than 3,000 people were killed.

Then President George W. Bush authorized the program, as the hunt for al Qaeda leaders began.

The report says the program led to a series of secret CIA prisons, including some suspected detention centers in Afghanistan, Poland and Romania.

It was in these prisons that the report says susp