Jim Gilmore, who served as Virginia’s governor during the September 11 attacks, reiterated Tuesday that he did not think the United States should be conducting torture, because "whatever value we were getting was not worth the sacrifice of the moral high ground internationally.”

But the Republican also said that the Senate report ignored "the reality that this is a war that we’re in."

"This is a new war and the CIA and our intelligence people are the soldiers in the field in this war, in this irregular war. It’s a nasty, dirty behind the scenes battle that’s going on between American security agencies and intelligence agencies and potential terrorists," Gilmore said.

Gilmore served as an Army counterintelligence officer in Germany in the 1970s. From 1999 to 2003 he headed a congressional advisory commission that assessed domestic capabilities for responding to terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.

The Senate hasn’t done its job, Gilmore added. “It’s been years now since these things were all coming into the public discussion about what the CIA was doing and what other agencies were doing. I haven’t seen any setting down of rules or parameters by the U.S. Senate."