Edit: Risch Blaming Messenger

U.S. Sen. Jim Risch’s logic is upside-down when it comes to a scathing Senate report detailing the torture and abuse applied by the Central Intelligence Agency after the 9/11 attacks. It’s not the report that threatens American credibility, senator. It’s the fact that such brutality happened. Risch, and Intelligence Committee colleague Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, issued a preemptive joint statement Monday night, about 12 hours before Senate Democrats released the 600-page executive summery of a years-long probe into the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The findings allege that the CIA lied to Congress and the White House, employed illegal tactics with striking regularity and all of the effort resulted in basically no useful information. But Risch and Rubio blame the messenger/ Twin Falls Times News Editorial Board. More here.

Question: Seems to me that CIA torture techniques were “reckless and irresponsible” — not the report detailing them. Thoughts?