Once again, my sincere thanks to those (few) of you who offered a response to my original question.
As regards the thread drift into the rights and wrongs of the procedures outlined in the report, I would simply point out that many of my countrymen have, in the past, been vilified by the West for using exactly the same procedures.
A significant number of you have defended the use of these techniques. Does this mean you now understand why we used them, that we may consider ourselves absolved from any sense of guilt associated with their use and that they will henceforth be considered acceptable forms of prisoner interrogation?
If they're OK for you, they're OK for everyone else. And if they're OK for military prisoner interrogation, perhaps they're OK for certain forms of civil prisoner interrogation too?