I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.
Anyone will say anything under torture.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.