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Task force members came from a broad range of ideological perspectives and professions, and include both former Republican and Democratic policymakers and members of Congress, retired generals, judges, lawyers, and academics.</p> <p>“The finding of torture by a diverse, bipartisan task force, without subpoena power and looking solely at the public record, shows the need for an official US investigation into detainee abuse,” said <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130422181256/http://www.hrw.org/bios/laura-pitter">Laura Pitter</a>, counterterrorism advisor at Human Rights Watch. “The indisputable evidence of torture clearly raises the question: what will the US government do about it?”</p> <p>The broad scope of the task force findings points to the need for a comprehensive government-sanctioned investigation through a commission of inquiry to create the definitive record of post-September 11 detainee abuse by the US government, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>The task force reviewed extensive public documentation and conducted over 100 interviews, but due to its private status did not have subpoena power or access to classified documents.<br/> <br/> The report concludes that, “The nation’s most senior officials … bear ultimate responsibility for allowing and contributing to the spread of illegal and improper interrogation techniques used by some US personnel on detainees in several theaters.” It also finds that much information obtained through torture and other ill-treatment was not useful or reliable. 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