GOP candidate Santorum: "McCain doesn't understand advanced interrogation".

[pool_hustler]

Yeah Rick, he only spent 5 years in North Vietnamese prison camps

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 Sheikh Mohammed, did not provide information that led to bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.

McCain said he asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and that the hunt for bin Laden did not begin with fresh information from Mohammed. In fact, the name of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, came from a detainee held in another country.

"Not only did the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed, it actually produced false and misleading information," McCain said.

In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday, Santorum said McCain was wrong.

"Everything I've read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation," Santorum said. "And so this idea that we didn't ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he (McCain) doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works.

"I mean, you break somebody, and after they're broken, they become cooperative. And that's when we got this information. And one thing led to another, and led to another, and that's how we ended up with bin Laden," said Santorum.

He added: "Maybe McCain has better information than I do, but from what I've seen, it seems pretty clear that but for these cooperative witnesses who were cooperative as a result of enhanced interrogations, we would not have gotten bin Laden."

McCain, the 2008 Republican president nominee, said his information came from Panetta. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, backed up McCain's assessment that waterboarding of Mohammed did not produce the tip that led to bin Laden.

Man these GOP presidential candidates are a truly sorry lot :anonymous

 

[pool_hustler]

Reaction from McCain's aide Mark Salter: "For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today."

 

[hedonis]

But before painting McCain with a broad brush of red, white, and blue, let's not forget that he's an appeasing, overly compromising RINO that does no favors to the Republican party.

Not sure Santorum thinks before opening his mouth- ever- and I sure as hell wouldn't want him for president, but the other thing to keep in mind: torture in a North Vietnamese prison in the 60s/70s is NOT modern enhanced interrogation techniques.

 

[pool_hustler]

But before painting McCain with a broad brush of red, white, and blue, let's not forget that he's an appeasing, overly compromising RINO that does no favors to the Republican party.

I think in this case that label, to whatever degree it's true, is immaterial. We should respect the fact he's speaking from brutal personal experience, and furthermore respect the fact he's not willing to sell his soul to play partisan politics.

Not sure Santorum thinks before opening his mouth- ever- and I sure as hell wouldn't want him for president, but the other thing to keep in mind: torture in a North Vietnamese prison in the 60s/70s is NOT modern enhanced interrogation techniques.

Over the course of 5 years I'm sure McCain was subjected to all manner of techniques, from the most seductive to the most severe.

Waterboarding and/or other "modern enhanced" techniques attempt to produce the same result as any other present or past technique, so I think it's a very safe bet that McCain understands them.

 

[Facetious]

Why I don't much care for Mr 'Sanitarium' . . .


Well, you do the work-- Wiki his full name and read the part about his late seventh child.
If that doesn't disqualify him, nothing will.


C--r--e--e--p--y--! :shy: :uohs:

 

[CunningStunts]

ALready another thread on this one... Santorum is an idiot.

 

[fathomite]

But before painting McCain with a broad brush of red, white, and blue, let's not forget that he's an appeasing, overly compromising RINO that does no favors to the Republican party.

Not sure Santorum thinks before opening his mouth- ever- and I sure as hell wouldn't want him for president, but the other thing to keep in mind: torture in a North Vietnamese prison in the 60s/70s is NOT modern enhanced interrogation techniques.

Except that 90% of the shit that was done to people at Gitmo Abu Grahab was EXACTLY the same horrific shit done to McCain. Torture techniques haven't become modernized or enhanced in any way in the past 50 years, except for Shrub and his band of scum having so called 'doctors' supposedly standing by.

 

[Supafly]

How do so many people not get it?

Any confession by waterboarding is just junk.

Torture, like waterboarding leads to ANY confession you want to hear.

Listen to Jesse Ventura, who knows about how this works, as he experienced waterboarding during his Navy Seal training

 

[Jon S.]

Ummmm....I do believe this topic has already been addressed in the following thread:

http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=510776


And, as I said in that one, being that I am a native Pennsylvanian....to the rest of the world....we're sorry!!!! (For Rick that is)