Senate: US paid 'ineffective' torture contractors $81M
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf
Read the US Senate report on CIA torture here. The Senate review finds that torture proved, as in the past, to be "ineffective" at getting useful information from accused terrorists: "The CIA Conducts No Research on Effective Interrogations, Relies on Contractors with No Relevant Experience."
NBC story identifies the former Air Force psychologists who formed a company the CIA paid $81 million to teach torture techniques here.