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The Supreme Court will decide how much of the CIA's torture interrogation program can be revealed to the public.  The CIA has been hiding behind a veil of secrecy for nearly 20 years.  What is known already gives the agency a black reputation from which it can never really recover, and it stains the democracy of the United States.  Admittedly, the CIA was under pressure to find, apprehend and punish the culprits for 9/11, but that doesn't justify the torture it undertook nor does it justify aggressive methods on the part of any US organization. Once the program came to light, the US government put a stop to it but it was too late.  The damage had been done and the agony of the prisoners couldn't be alleviated after the fact.  The US will live with the reputation of practicing inhumane interrogation techniques.