The only person in jail over CIA torture is a whistleblower

Yesterday saw the release of nearly 600 (out of 6,000) pages of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture. Despite the report's extensive depiction of gruesome practices ranging from rectal feeding to forcing detainees, some of whom were known to be innocent, to stand on broken legs, no one from the CIA has gone to jail — except for a whistleblower who tried to expose the report back in 2007.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.