Yeah, America's attention is beginning to wander away from the Torture Report from the Senate Intelligence Committee — those gifts under the tree won't buy themselves, y'know. But I think it worth a link, for the record and future discussion, to this article by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), a member of that Senate Intelligence Committee, which takes the case that CIA officials, and their supporters, have put forward against the report: that it was a partisan hack job, that the writers of it aren't using good information, that lots of critical and actionable intelligence came from the CIA's "interrogation program," etc., and directly addresses each point, including citations to the report itself.
The Case Against the Torture Report
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If those quotes from the WSJ are accurate, it looks like the CIA directors couldn't refute the report on torture and so decided to claim that it denounced the CIA's interrogation program as a whole, which they could then refute. If so, it is a straw man argument, and I'd hope that nobody would take it seriously (a vain hope, no doubt).
+Scott Randel It's certainly more than a bit misleading.But it's clearly effective PR.