Senate GOP leaders bash CIA report

Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday blasted Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for releasing a scathing report on CIA interrogation practices.

{mosads}Republicans argued the report, which had no input from GOP lawmakers or staff, would endanger American embassies around the world. [Read the report]. 

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said it “significantly endangers Americans around the world” and “serves no purpose.”

Senate GOP Conference Chairman John Thune (S.D.) called it an “attempt to rewrite history by the Democrats,” whom he called intent on bashing former President George W. Bush.

While the report was authorized by a bipartisan vote of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican leaders noted that GOP lawmakers and staff did not participate in the drafting of the report.

Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.), the vice chairman of the Senate GOP Conference, said it was “written without Republican staff being invited.”