Columnist George Will broke with a number of his conservative colleagues on Sunday, calling the release of the Senate’s CIA torture report “on balance, good” for the country.
While many conservatives have portrayed the Democrat-led committee report as partisan, inaccurate, and unnecessarily divisive, on Fox News Sunday Will explained that “the default position of a free society is, more information is better.”
“We’re having a very interesting argument today, and it serves the country,” he said. “The argument at one level is about whether these techniques work. We ought to know that, because this is not the last time we will be wounded as a nation.”
“But there’s another aspect to this,” Will continued. “If the security services of a public begin to lie to the executive branch of which it’s a part, and the congressional branch that provides its oversight, then you have, not just a problem, you have a crisis of the regime — and you want to know if that happened.”
The senators behind the report allege that the CIA deliberately withheld important aspects of the enhanced-interrogation program from Congress — an accusation strenuously denied by former Bush-administration and CIA officials.
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