McCain, Once Tortured, Voted for CIA Torture

McCain says he's against torture, having been tortured himself.

But apparently he'll vote for it.

On the campaign trail in November, McCain said:

“One of the things that kept us going when I was in prison in North Vietnam was that we knew that if the situation were reversed, that we would not be doing to our captors what they were doing to us.”

Well, hold on there big fella.

In February, McCain was a crucial swing vote in a bill pending in the Senate to explicitly ban the CIA from employing torture in the form of waterboarding. When given the opportunity to vote against torture and take a moral stand, McCain chose to appease his pro-torture base.

So he voted for torture.

Now there's some straight talk for ya.