Offered without comment

Because there really is nothing I can add to this quote from the Senate Armed Services Committee report titled "Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody."

[T]his is my opinion, even though they were giving information and some of it was useful, while we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq and we were not being successful in establishing a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish this link … there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.