McCain: Waterboarding didn't get bin Laden

Politico ^ | 2011-05-05 | Meredith Shiner

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Sen. John McCain denounced “advanced interrogation” methods like waterboarding Wednesday amid a growing debate over its effectiveness reopened by the killing of Osama bin Laden.

McCain told reporters leaving an intelligence briefing for senators by CIA director Leon Panetta that he has seen no information so far to indicate that techniques like waterboarding factored significantly in the information gathering that led to bin Laden’s death.

“So far I know of no information that was obtained, that would have been useful, by ‘advanced interrogation.’ In fact, according to published reports … some of the key people who knew about this courrier denied it,” McCain said, careful to note that he was not relaying information from Panetta’s classified session with Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committee members.

“Where there is published information in the various newspapers and media that the information about this courrier was intercepted conversation between two individuals — that’s as far as I know,” the top Republicans on the Armed Services Committee added. “I stand on the side of the United States and by the Geneva conventions, of which we are signatories, which we were in violation of by waterboarding.”

[antceecee]

War hero. That was his ticket.

[antceecee]

Okay... this lemming is following your lead.... ; ~ )

[antceecee]

They have Biden... we have McCaniac.

[South40]

:-)

[crz]

Its in the water in AZ. I kid you not! People retire down there and they start to go wacky. I sincerely think it is to much sun.

[bmwcyle]

Can’t that man just go away.

[antceecee]

Perhaps he is in mid stage dementia????? It happens.

[DeaconRed]

I am glad the RINO didn't get elected.
At least ZERO is not a Republican. Neither is McLaim, but he claims to be and non Republicans put him in the Republican camp.
We just need to clean house. . . . . .

[Joe Boucher]

John McCain is one person whose grave I’d love to dance on.

[bmwcyle]

Then he has been that way for the last 15 years. His stupid statements just didn’t start.

[flat]

SARAH tried desparately to save Pappy....she did every thing she could.....but even SARAH could not raise the titanic..... so many fools so little time....eh, superwoman?

[flat]

bwhahaah hats off 2 U TCM...THAT, muh man, WAS A GOOD ONE...

[arasina]

Actually McCain is right here. McCain got to Osama first and kept talking to him until Osama, in total anguish and desperation turned the gun on himself....

LOL! It's even worse. Bin Laden got double-teamed: John and daughter Megan.

[Matthew James]

McCain needs to retire, and fade away...

[Rearden]

Idiot

[kittymyrib]

Too bad Arizona voted once again to be represented in the Senate by this doddering old idiot. He’s beating the war drums for our further involvement in Libya, and now he’s on Obama’s team against interrogating terrorists by waterboarding.
And too bad he has four more years to be loud and wrong on every issue, unless God intervenes.

[reefdiver]

CIA Dir. said it did. He’s not on yr team either.

[newnhdad]

Thank you for your service.. here’s a gold watch, go away and take your daughter with you into obscurity.

[Thermalseeker]

And he’s on our side!

Since when?

[Rudder]

“I stand on the side of the United States and by the Geneva conventions, of which we are signatories, which we were in violation of by waterboarding.”

One would have thought that, by now, McCain would fully understand why he lost, despite the Herculean effort by Sarah Palin, the Presidential election---but, NO.