Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.
John McCainExcessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
John McCainWe are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCainWe got results that would not have been possible without a negotiating partner like Joe Biden.
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