Leave it to the Great One, radio host and former Reagan administration attorney Mark Levin, to use blunt language in his assessment of the CIA reports presented on Tuesday.

On his December 9 radio show, Levin blasted Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Senate ‘torture report’ of the CIA’s interrogation of terrorist detainees. Referring to the end of Democratic rule in the Senate, Levin said it was a ‘cheap political stunt,’ and “one last turd in the swimming pool.”

Indeed.

Levin was not the only one forcefully slamming the report. Former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss, and General Michael Hayden emphatically responded to the findings, which were conveniently cherry-picked and prepared by a Democratic staff. Calling it “a poorly done and partisan attack,” they accused the Senate of never interviewing them for the report.

The former directors insisted that the interrogation techniques used absolutely saved lives, and they listed several instances of the same:

It led to the capture of senior al Qaeda operatives, thereby removing them from the battlefield.

It led to the disruption of terrorist plots and prevented mass casualty attacks, saving American and Allied lives.

It added enormously to what we knew about al Qaeda as an organization and therefore informed our approaches on how best to attack, thwart and degrade it.

One enormous terrorist plot which the CIA thwarted was the removal of a 17-man Southeast Asian terror group which had been recruited for a “second wave” 9/11-style attack on the West Coast. This group was probably set to use airplanes, unleashing another day of horror on the opposite coast of the United States.