YOU, NANCY? – AT 10:57 A.M. ET:  The professionals are fighting mad, and are fighting back against this week's assault on the CIA by a group of Democrats in the Senate.  This will not blow over quickly.  From Fox: 

WASHINGTON – The man who oversaw the controversial CIA interrogation program defended the use of the techniques used on militants -- including waterboarding -- and said members of Congress, including Sen. Nancy Pelosi, were “fully aware” of the methods used.

“She never objected to the techniques at all,” Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, said on "Fox News Sunday." “All of these techniques were approved by the lawyers.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a former member of the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, and Karl Rove, a former White House adviser to President George W. Bush and a Fox News contributor, were also on the program.

The two were often at odds over whether the techniques described in the report constituted torture, whether the methods were effective and if the CIA misled the White House and Congress.

The CIA report dominated most of the Sunday talk shows.

Last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney called the controversial CIA interrogation report “full of crap,” during an interview with Fox News.

“I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed,” Cheney said, in his first televised interview since the report’s release early last week. “It’s a classic example of where politicians get together and throw professionals under the bus.”

COMMENT:  One of the main criticisms of the report is that it does not place events in context, does not deal with the fact that in the days after 9-11 our highest national priority was to prevent another attack and save American lives. 

The Democratic Party is increasingly retreating to the late 1960s, when it was taken over by the McGovern crowd.  Not good for the country.  Not good at all.

December 14, 2014