country strong and secure. >> welcome to "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. that was john brennan defending his agency post-september 11th use of so-called enhance interrogation techniques in the wake of a senate intelligence committee report released this week accusing the cia of torturing detainees and lying about its effectiveness. roundly criticized by former top officials of the spy agency, none of whom were interviewed by the committee before its release. is the 6,000-page document anything more than partisan second guessing? let's ask wall street journalist and deputy and dorothy and foreign affairs columnist bret stevens. so, dorothy, we've been editorially very critical of the report and we published the opposition from the former cia officials. get that on the record. but there's an argument out there whatever you think of the