IT'S A PARTISAN ATTACK

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released a 499-page declassified executive summary of the still-classified 6,700-page report. Declassified versions of a CIA rebuttal and additional Democratic and Republican views reportedly also will be released.

This investigation marks a new low for congressional oversight of intelligence because of its naked partisanship and refusal to consider all relevant evidence. The report was written entirely by the committee's Democratic staff. The investigation included no interviews - it is based only on a review of documents. Because the report lacks Republican co-authors or interviews of people who ran the enhanced-interrogation program, it has no credibility and amounts to a five-year, $50 million Democrat cherry-picking exercise to investigate the Bush administration.

This didn't have to happen. There are congressional Republicans who have problems with the enhanced-interrogation program and wanted an honest, bipartisan assessment of it. This is why all but one Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to approve the probe in March 2009. However, all of the committee's GOP members withdrew their support six months later when it became clear that this inquiry would be a witch hunt against the Bush administration and the CIA and not a balanced, bipartisan investigation.

The credibility of the report is destroyed by the chorus of prominent policy makers, past and present, who have rejected it:

• Former CIA Directors George J. Tenet, Porter J. Goss and Michael V. Hayden, and former CIA Deputy Directors John E. McLaughlin, Albert M. Calland, and Stephen R. Kappes, writing in the Wall Street Journal;
• Former Acting CIA chief Mike Morell, who served President Obama from 2012 to 2013;
• Bush-era Justice Department official John Yoo, who reviewed the legality of the CIA actions at the time;
• Vice President Dick Cheney, who minced no words about the report;
• And current CIA Director John Brennan.

The Left are happy to use this report as a way to refocus attention on the "crimes" of the Bush administration instead of the failures of the Obama administration, but it won't work. The Democrats' signature legislation, Obamacare, is going to hurt more American families in 2015; the economy is not getting better for the middle class; and President Obama's foreign policy is making us less secure. That's what the American people care about; that's why so many Democrats lost in the last election.