Yesterday, the Senate brought the Intelligence Authorization Bill to the floor, which contained a provision 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 specifically bans waterboarding.
The Senate voted in favor of the bill, but McCain (who in the past has spoken strongly in favor of implementing the Army Field Manual standard) when confronted with the decision of whether to stick with his conscience or cave to the right wing, chose to ditch his principles and instead vote to preserve waterboarding.
President Bush is likely to veto this bill under the guise that it would prevent the president from taking the lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack in wartime. And after the veto, McCain will again be confronted with a vote to either stand with President Bush or stand against torture. He indicated with his vote today where he will come down on that issue.
John McCain: He was against torture before he was for it.
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Nice.
Geeze.
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