Wednesday, February 20, 2008

John McCain says President Bush Should Veto Torture Bill

TalkingPointsMemo.com brings us this story and it starts off like this... Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain said President Bush should veto a measure that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects... McCain voted against the bill, which would restrict the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation techniques listed in the Army field manual... His vote was controversial because the manual prohibits waterboarding — a simulated drowning technique that McCain also opposes — yet McCain doesn't want the CIA bound by the manual and its prohibitions...
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