McCain Suggests Bush Has Endorsed Torture

By Zachary A. Goldfarb Sen. John McCain nowadays issued some of his strongest criticism of President Bush by an aggressive interrogation technique, clearly suggesting that the president has endorsed torture. During an assessment of the Bush presidency on “Fox News Sunday,” McCain discussed the administration’s use by “waterboarding,” a technique that has been used to interrogate terrorist detainees. “Waterboarding to me is torture, okay? And waterboarding was advocated by the administration, and according to a published report, was used,”

McCain said. “I obviously don’t want to torture any prisoners.” McCain additionally said that he opposed the “spending spree” in the Bush years and wanted to take bigger steps to fight climate change. He gave the president credit for preventing another terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The issue of waterboarding has been a central one for McCain, a former prisoner of war who sponsored in 2005 the

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