this strengthens self government and stature in the world. i thank the committee for that valuable public service. i have long believed as a reasonable person would define it, especially and not only the practice of waterboarding, a mock execution and exquisite form of torture. it is used for shameful and unnecessary and contrary to the a kergssertion assertions, it produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and atrocities. i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoner who is produced more bad than good intelligence. i know they offer intentionally
arizona know candidate, himself a p.o.w. during vietnam war who was tortured by the north vietnamese. this is what he said today on the senate floor after dianne feinstein released this report. i have long believed some of these practices amounted to torture as a reasonable person would define it, especially, but not only the practice of waterboarding which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. are you ready to concede that these techniques amounted to torture? no. no. tort sura legally defined term in statute. i did not believe at the time they were approved they were torture. certainly the justice department didn t conclude that. and i do not believe it today. they were harsh, they were brutal, but they did not in my view cross the legal line. senator mccain of all people has the right and experience to say
report on interrogation. let s watch and listen. i have long believed some of these practices amounted to torture as a reasonable person would define it, especially, but not only the practice of water boarding which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. its use is unnecessary and as the committee report makes clear, it produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and atrocities. i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. i know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they
i thank the committee for the valuable public service. i have long believed some of these practices have amounted to torture and especially but not only the practice of waterboarding, which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. its use was shameful and unnecessary and, contrary to assertions made by some of it is defenders and as the committee report makes clear, it produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and atrocities. i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. i know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they
hopefully get something for breakfast, hopefully get something for dinner. you re alive at the end of the day, and you want to get to the next day and go through that. and like in my case, you don t think about oh, i m going to be here for 311 days because you don t know. you might be actually dead at the end of the first day. did you think every day you were going to die? i think most people none of us can understand what it must have been like. the claustrophobia, the fear, you don t understand what the people around you are saying. well, you never knew. the gang that i was with wanted money. so i was hopeful they would keep me alive trying to get the money. but you never knew what they were going to do. and from time to time they would take me out of the little room and have like a mock execution and say okay, we re going to kill you now. and they would after a while put me back down in the hole and put