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President Bush vetoed Saturday legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a longtime critic of coercive interrogation tactics who nonetheless backed the Bush administration in opposing the CIA waterboarding ban

As a reminder, this was John "Straight Talk" McCain in 2005:

The mistreatment of prisoners harms us more than our enemies.

In my view, to make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. I believe that it is torture, very exquisite torture.

And this was Straight Talk McCain in Oct 2007:

Anyone who knows what waterboarding is could not be unsure. It is a horrible torture technique used by Pol Pot and being used on Buddhist monks as we speak.

this is a terrible and odious practice and should never be condoned in the U.S. We are a better nation than that.