Colbert Mocks Blitzer: As Journalists, It’s Our Job To Ask ‘Should We Know This?’

COLBERT: “Here’s what George Bush said.”
BUSH [video]: “The United States does not torture.”
COLBERT: “And he should know because he specifically asked not to be told. Now, another person who doesn’t want to be told things is Wolf Blitzer, who yesterday blitzed Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate committee that released this report.”
[video]
BLITZER: “Was it worth it to release this report today if in fact American lives, diplomats, military personnel, civilians are going to be in danger?”
FEINSTEIN: “Look, there is no perfect time to release this report. There have been beheadings. There have been attacks without this report coming out.”
BLITZER: “But if Americans are killed as a result of this report and they tell you that, I assume you would feel guilty about that.”
FEINSTEIN: “I would feel very badly, of course. I mean what, do you think, Wolf Blitzer?”
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COLBERT: ‘Yes. What do you think, Wolf Isaac Blitzer. And don’t you roll your eyes at me, young man. Now go clean your Situation Room or your father and I will take away your beard trimmer. I never, in all my years— folks, I gotta tell you, I’m with Wolf Blitzer on this one. As journalists it is our sacred duty to face those in authority and ask should we really know this? The point is I don’t want to learn what’s in this report. When we return, I’m going to learn what’s in this report when I’m joined by the director of the National Security archive at George Washington university, Tom Blanton. We’ll be right back.”