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