Americans' torture support disturbing

The US Senate report on the CIA's torture methods that was made public last week has raised some serious questions: Is the United States still practicing or will continue practicing water-boarding, sleep depriving and other appalling torture techniques? Will it use them citing imminent threat to national security?

Such concern is justified despite the torture report talking mostly about the practice under the administration of former US president George W. Bush.

It is true that President Barack Obama was the one who prohibited the use of such torture methods because, as he said in April 2009, "they undermine our moral authority and do not make us safer". Obama has supported the declassification of the documents and said that, if CIA agents are still using such torture techniques, "they would be directly violating the orders that I've issued as president and commander in chief."