A Senate committee is looking into the question of what the Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques got in the way of intelligence. Good.

Not so good is the Democrats reaction to a few Republicans telling the press that it looks like the EITs worked and prevented terrorist attacks.

The Dems are OUTRAGED, that Republicans would leak "classified" information. Only they didn't. They provided no specifics from the briefings. They merely said that what they were told by the CIA backs up past claims of terror disruption thanks to the EITs.

Either the EITs worked, which would prove the Dems were wrong about their claims that they never did, or they didn't. If they didn't, the Dems would be chomping at the bit to leak their own version of what they are now being told. So its obvious, based on the Dems reaction that the Republicans have the truth on their side. A truth the Dems want to be able to spin at a later date.

Asked by the media whether the substance of the GOP's claims are true, the Dems refused to answer citing the briefings were "classified." Right. So were the "torture memos" until they were unclassified by a Democratic president for political reasons. The stench of Democratic hypocrisy is reaching vomit-inducing levels.

Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi is far from off the hook for her claim that the CIA habitually lies to Congress. Republicans are demanding a public investigation and/or hearings on the Speaker's assertions.

The Dems are claiming the Republicans are "playing politics" with national security, which is a hoot, given that Dems have made playing politics with national security an art form for the last seven years.

Obama has managed to push this story off the the front pages, with overseas speeches and the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, but it will come back to haunt him and the leadership of his party. In their efforts to destroy the Bush presidency they had to resort to rank hypocrisy and mendaciousness. The chickens are coming home to roost.