As the first decade of the 21st century winds to a close, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker has remarked that there are at least 10 major lingering questions from the “war on terror” that so far have gone unanswered.

1. What was Vice-President Dick Cheney’s real role in the Bush administration’s interrogation program?
2. How much did President George W. Bush know about the abusive techniques that were being used?
3. What was on the 92 interrogation videotapes that the CIA destroyed and why did they destroy them?
4. Are there still some CIA prisoners in black-site prisons who are unaccounted for?
5. Did the CIA provide the personnel for torture sessions or were they performed by others?
6. Will the public ever have access to documents that prove whether or not “enhanced interrogation” really provided useful information that could not have been obtained using legal techniques?
7. When will the Justice Department report on Bush administration lawyers who approved abusive techniques be made public and why has it been delayed?
8. Will the contract psychologists who designed the CIA interrogation program face professional consequences?
9. Who forged the documents that claimed Saddam Hussein was seeking “yellowcake” from Niger?
10. Who are the leading financiers of terrorism and are any of them being aided by foreign governments?