John Mccain Torture

McCain Denies Giving OK To CIA Torture Tactic

TIME | MIchael Scherer and Bobby Ghosh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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U.S. Senator John McCain, a torture survivor from his days as a captive during the Vietnam War, says his private comments about harsh interrogation me...

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Country First? Never Mind

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

When McCain is willing to sign away the principle derived from what is the defining moment of his life, then the question is: what core of character remains?

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Criminal Justice: One Of The Enormous Non-Issues Of Presidential Politics

James Freedman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home

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James Freedman

A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.

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Ignoring the 'Rocks in Glass Houses' Rule, Lieberman Calls Obama a Flip-Flopper on This Week

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

How apathetic does McCain think the voters are that his campaign can get away with accusing Obama of the very thing that has been McCain's biggest weakness?

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McCain's Vietnam Captor Speaks: A Conversation With Tran Trong Duyet

BBC News | Staff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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In 1967, US presidential candidate John McCain's plane was shot down on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. BBC reporter Andrew Harding tracked dow...

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McCain's Views On War Laid Bare In 1974 Thesis

NY Times | David Kirkpatrick | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics

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About a year after his release from a North Vietnamese prison camp, Cmdr. John S. McCain III sat down to address one of the most vexing questions conf...

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"Standard Operating Procedures"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.

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What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

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Will Thomas

Rove: Stress Positions Are Torture When Done To John McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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Karl Rove's recent opinion piece on John McCain contradicts the definition of torture to which his former employer adheres. Despite repeated claims t...

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Kristof Offers Nonsensical Support For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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McCain is the world's worst panderer, mainly because his pandering is exacerbated by a stunning ineptness. Somehow, all of McCain's inconsistencies strike Kristof as laudable.

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McCain Can't Keep Stories Straight On Iraq, Torture

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Michael D. Shear | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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In Saturday's Washington Post the paper examines, in two separate articles, instances in which John McCain seems to be either changing his position, c...

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Watch McCain Flip Flop On Waterboarding

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Hanna Ingber Win

So much for Sen. John McCain being a man of principle who stood up to the Bush Administration and fellow Republicans. Turns out, he too is just anoth...

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Will McCain Vote Against Waterboarding Today?

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Today, at 10:30 a.m. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to bring to the floor the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report. One ...

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Castro And McCain Spar Over Cuban Torture In Vietnam

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running Republican presidential candidate John McCain Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans tortur...

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