The Senate report appears to conclude some of the interrogations of prisoners amounted to torture
A secret Senate report on CIA interrogations "tells a story of which no American is proud", a leaked White House memo states.
The report was described in a draft memo of media talking points proposed by the state department, which was first reported by the AP news agency.
It concludes CIA interrogations were brutal and produced little intelligence of value, according to reports.
The White House has chosen not to prosecute the CIA officers involved.
In the CIA operation known internally as the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation programme, intelligence agents took as many as 100 prisoners to "black sites" outside the US and interrogated them using methods such as waterboarding, slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold, and sleep deprivation.
The document suggests the Senate has concluded that top state department officials, including then-Secretary of State Colin Powell (centre-left) was not immediately informed of the methods
The state department document, a set of proposed talking points intended to guide White House officials' media appearances, was accidentally emailed to the Associated Press by the White House, the news agency says.
In addition to an understanding of how the state department views the Senate report, it offers new details about what the report concludes.
The document indicates some US ambassadors were informed of the CIA interrogation programme but were told not to inform superiors in the state department. Also, it indicates that the secretary of state during many of the Bush years, Colin Powell, was "kept in the dark" on interrogation methods at first.
Among the proposed responses to the Senate report is a description of the US interrogation programme as a "mistake" that the US must "acknowledge, learn from, and never repeat".
A recent European court decision has held Poland responsible for hosting a "black site" for the US prisoners
"The report leaves no doubt that the methods used to extract information from some terrorist suspects caused profound pain, suffering and humiliation," the document states.
"It also leaves no doubt that the harm caused by the use of these techniques outweighed any potential benefit."
But the document notes approvingly that "America's democratic system worked just as it was designed to work in bringing an end to actions inconsistent with our democratic values".
The memo's leak comes amid a dispute between the CIA and the Senate over the investigation's process.
On Thursday, a CIA internal investigator found agency employees acted improperly when they searched Senate computers involved in the investigation.
CIA Director John Brennan has apologised to Senate intelligence committee leaders and opened an accountability board to investigate whether the officers should be disciplined, a spokesman said.
President Barack Obama ordered a halt to the CIA's enhanced interrogation programme soon after taking office in 2009.
The Senate voted in April to make an unclassified summary of its report on the programme public.
The CIA and some Republicans dispute some of the findings, saying the report contains errors.
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