"Maverick" McCain, who for some reason appeals to independents and liberals, voted yesterday for waterboarding. Actually, he voted against restricting the CIA to using interrogation methods that are in the Army Field Manual, which, by the way, is not such a big deal. Basically, the bill said the CIA should practice what it preaches; that it should operate the way it says it will operate.
That wasn't good enough for "100 years" McCain. Now that he's courting the conservatives, he likes torture.
I want the Republican race to be over so the media can start looking at this guy and reporting how conservative he really is. Newspapers all over the country should be reporting: "McCain votes for waterboarding."
Update: He was against it before he was for it.
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A quibble in between major and minor: the Army Field Manual has never applied to the CIA. When Congress voted to apply it to the Defense Department in 2005, it explicitly omitted including the CIA. So in no way did yesterday's vote require the CIA to "practice what it preaches." Of course, that doesn't mean it *shouldn't* practice what the DOD preaches. Someone should ask McCain to make clear which interrogation tactics (aside from waterboarding, which he still clearly opposes) should be available to the CIA despite being at odds with the Army Field manual. Thus far, he's gotten away with condemning waterboarding while keeping mum about other methods (sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, threats) that aren't so far below waterboarding on the shocks-the-conscience scale.
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