Morality

Is the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report the start of real change at the CIA? Some people believe the airing of gruesome details will force the agency to be more accountable to Congress.

It’s no coincidence that ISIS prisoners are kept in bright orange jumpsuits. The terrorist group took the idea from the US, who places Guantanamo Bay prisoners in the same garb — and that’s not the only way terrorists have been able to crib from American actions.

Mark Bowden’s view: The use of ”coercive methods does and did produce very useful information.”

New images and reports have surfaced of wholesale torture and starvation on the part of the Syrian regime, just as peace talks to end the war are set to start on Wednesday. On the US west coast, scientists dispel fears that Pacific Ocean fish are contaminated with Fukushima radiation. And side-by-side men’s toilets at an Olympic venue have become a social media joke. That and more, in today’s Global Scan.

“The World” looks at music used for a different purpose: interrogation.