One can imagine what the classified report must contain since the summary itself is damning:

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of "a few bad apples" acting on their own. The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees. Those efforts damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority. This report is a product of the Committee's inquiry into how those unfortunate results came about.

The Summary states that Bush's removal of Geneva Convention protection for detainees "opened the door" to abuse and torture. Further, the Department of Justice redefined what torture was to permit "aggressive interrogations. Then Rumsfeld approved the use of torture. Torture was approved for use at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. The conclusions in the Executive Summary start on page 16 of the document, and traces the decisions made from the White House and top administrations officials, through training practices and into the field.

In Senator Carl Levin's (head of the Senate Armed Services Committee) press release regarding the report, he concludes"

"The abuses at Abu Ghraib, GTMO and elsewhere cannot be chalked up to the actions of a few bad apples. Attempts by senior officials to portray that to be the case while shrugging off any responsibility for abuses are both unconscionable and false. Our investigation is an effort to set the record straight on this chapter in our history that has so damaged both America's standing and our security. America needs to own up to its mistakes so that we can rebuild some of the good will that we have lost.

In the Joint Statement of Levin and John McCain (senior Republican on the committee) states in part:

The Committee concluded that the authorization of aggressive interrogation techniques by senior officials was both a direct cause of detainee abuse and conveyed the message that it was okay to mistreat and degrade detainees in U.S. custody.

Chairman Levin said, "SERE training techniques were designed to give our troops a taste of what they might be subjected to if captured by a ruthless, lawless enemy so that they would be better prepared to resist. The techniques were never intended to be used against detainees in U.S. custody."

Senator McCain said, "The Committee's report details the inexcusable link between abusive interrogation techniques used by our enemies who ignored the Geneva Conventions and interrogation policy for detainees in U.S. custody. These policies are wrong and must never be repeated."