* The interrogations promoted by the CIA, and briefed to Congress, came from a program developed to train U.S. soldiers to resist torture. No one researched the readily available history of the methods, which were devised by Chinese communists in the 1950s to force false confessions for use at show trials. And that's what we know about U.S.-sponsored torture only this week. In the near future, the results of an investigation into the memos by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility will be released, a report that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a member of the intelligence committee, says will be "devastating." And now that the once-classified memos have been released, other people with firsthand knowledge of what went on are free to speak. Some surely will.