Early today the Senate declassified and made public the Senate Select Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program (or, as some are calling it, the Bush Cheney CIA Torture Report). We know that many of you will be looking for the CIA torture methods report online, and so, we are giving it to you here.

This week there was an explosion in Washington, DC – specifically, Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, exploded over documents vanishing from CIA provided computers at a CIA leased facility, and specifically relating to the CIA internal “Panetta Review”. While CIA director John Brennan and Feinstein argue, we can’t help but wonder: Just how naive do you have to be to believe that when the CIA produces documents on CIA provided computers, in a CIA leased facility, guarded by the CIA, that they won’t have left themselves a way to access those same computers? Or that they won’t use it?

Next time you use that iPad or iPhone, give a silent thanks to In-Q-Tel (pronounced “in q tel” or “incutel”), the CIA-run venture capital fund that has been integral in many technologies commonly used today, such as the touch screen. In q tel, also responsible for investing in what was the beginnings of the technology that became Google Earth, began in the late 90s and was born out of the CIA’s need to manage their huge mountain of data.