Ethics

McCain Admits Bush Torture Violated Treaties

By Ed Brayton

As my friend Daphne Eviatar notes at the Washington Independent, John McCain admitted on Face the Nation that the torture of detainees by the Bush administration violates multiple treaty obligations. He just doesn't much care:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on "Face the Nation" Sunday that -- like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president's cabinet -- he thinks President Obama was right when he said "we ought to go forward, not back."

But then he went on to say, as Glenn Greenwald tweeted yesterday, that "I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture that we ratified under President Reagan."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).