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McCain On Mohammed Waterboarding: 'It's Unacceptable...It's Unacceptable.' (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Via ThinkProgress comes this video of John McCain on Fox News discussing the release of the torture memos. McCain makes it clear that he is not in favor of these memos having been released, telling Fox, "The release of these memos helps no one, doesn't help America's image, does not help us address the issue." ...
McCain On Mohammed Waterboarding: 'It's Unacceptable...It's Unacceptable' (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Via ThinkProgress comes this video of John McCain on Fox News discussing the release of the torture memos. McCain makes it clear that he is not in favor of these memos having been released, telling Fox, "The release of these memos helps no one, doesn't help America's image, does not help us address the issue." ...
The Torture Lobby
Wonk Room —
... , Sen. John McCain performed an important service today, stating flat-out that “waterboarding is torture, period.” Watch it: ...
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one
SteveAudio —
... that Abu Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew. The 2005 memo also says that the C.I.A. used waterboarding 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Wow, either waterboarding doesn't work or these guys really like their job! p.s. John McCain, that flaming liberal, says: "It's unacceptable," McCain said, adding: One is too much. Waterboarding is ...
Fox News and the Difficulty of Consensus
Matthew Yglesias —
... that torture is wrong for the future. A decision to kind of wave hands and say “well, it was a crazy time” would disappoint me, but the really important thing is to try to change the dynamic where we essentially have a lot of politicians saying that if it were up to them we’d go straight-away back to doing more torture. This is why it’s great to Senator John McCain back to fighting the good fight on the torture issue: ...
Charles J. Brown: The Torture Memos: McCain's Tortured Contradictions
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
This is a post I did not want to write.
For most of his career, John McCain has been an outspoken advocate against torture. So you would think that Senator McCain would have cheered the White House's decision to release the torture memos.
Unfortunately, you would be wrong (h/t):
McCain says he wishes that the Bush Administration had abided by the Detainee Treatment Act, of which he was the principal sponsor. He describes waterboarding as "unacceptable" and "torture, period." He ...
Bob Cesca: The Tortured Logic of the Torture Superfans
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... of allowing the CIA to continue to use the same techniques described in the OLC memos. Only now has he condemned the CIA's use of torture. ...
McCain's Curious Support for "Moving On"
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... , I really should have pointed out that McCain has taken a look at the Bush Administration's actions, including waterboarding a detainee 183 times in a month, and has decided that instead of investigations or prosecutions, ...
Kilmeade: McCain ?Should Not Be Allowed To Talk On Torture? Because ?He Was Tortured?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... by saying, “One is too much. Waterboarding is torture, period .” After saying McCain shouldn’t be able to talk about torture, Kilmeade added, “and plus, ...
Should the US also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan?
Commondreams.org Views —
... level, it's worth watching for the pure spectacle of seeing these individuals self-righteously parade around as defenders of the lives of The Troops who desperately want to avoid inflaming anti-American sentiment -- when these are the very same people who sent more than 4,000 American troops to their deaths in Iraq for a completely unnecessary war and, even more so, cheered on policies -- from torture to Guantanamo to the invasion itself -- that, as even General Petraeus , John McCain and numerous other military officials point out, sent anti-American ...
