Graham Says Torture's Worked for 500 Years

Posted on 13. May, 2009 by Tim Kelly in SC Politics

Lindsey Graham, once a principled voice on the Bush Administration's treatment of detainees, has now gone all Dick Cheney on us:


In today’s hearing on detainee interrogations, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attempted to defend the Bush administration’s torture program. “Let’s have both sides of the story here,” Graham declared, saying there could be evidence that torture provided “good information.” Graham then made the puzzling claim that since torture has been used for half a millenium, it “apparently” is useful:

“The Vice President is suggesting that there was good information obtained, and I’d like the committee to get that information. Let’s have both sides of the story here. I mean, one of the reasons these techniques have survived for about 500 years is apparently they work.”

One would think that having handily won re-election, Graham might be willing to do more than parrot right-wing talking points, but apparently that’s too much to ask.

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