McCain Flip-Flops on Torture
Posted on | February 14, 2008
You knew he would. Senator John McCain, once an opponent of the White House on torture, presumably because of the torture he faced as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had a chance yesterday to ban waterboarding, when
the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, which contained a provision from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) establishing one interrogation standard across the government. The bill requires the intelligence community to abide by the same standards as articulated in the Army Field Manual and bans waterboarding…
[T]he Senate voted in favor of the bill, 51-45…
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former prisoner of war, has spoken strongly in favor of implementing the Army Field Manual standard. When confronted today with the decision of whether to stick with his conscience or cave to the right wing, McCain chose to ditch his principles and instead vote to preserve waterboarding.
Now that he’s having to pander to the right wing in his presidential run, the “maverick” senator finds torture expedient. Nearly as frightening, though, is the realization that two of the four senators not voting were Clinton and Obama.
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