Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Interrogation
By DONNA CASSATA
05/17/11
WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years enduring brutal treatment at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors, doesn't know how effective waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques can be. The Republican presidential contender insisted the tactics led the United States to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a speech last week that waterboarding al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, did not provide information that led to bin Laden's compound in Pakistan...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/santorum-mccain-doesnt-understand-torture_n_863306.html
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There's a lot of things that you might say about John McCain, but for Rick Santorum, whose military experience is limited to the fact that his parents once worked for the Veterans Adminstration, to claim that he knows more about what it means to torture someone and the sorts of intelligence that one can gain from such torture, is so outrageous that your first thought is that the dialog in the above article was taken from an SNL script.
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