TW: John McCain made some deals with the devil to attain the Republican nomination but on torture he is not confused unlike many of his lesser colleagues. And congrats to his son who graduated Annapolis. From Jeff Goldberg at Atlantic:
"I asked him about Dick Cheney and his defense of Bush Administration torture policies. He told me of his fundamental disagreement with Cheney: "When you have a majority of Americans, seventy-something percent, saying we shouldn't torture, then I'm not sure it helps for the Vice President to go out and continue to espouse that position," he said.
"But look, he's free to talk. He's a former Vice President of the United States. I just don't see where it helps." And then he got acerbic: Cheney, he says, "believes that waterboarding doesn't fall under the Geneva Conventions and that it's not a form of torture. But you know, it goes back to the Spanish Inquisition."
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