McCain wants Senate report on torture made public

McCain, a vocal opponent of the Bush
administration’s use of enhanced interrogation on terror detainees, said that
he had yet to speak about the release of the report with Senate Intelligence
Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), whose committee is voting on the report
Thursday.

{mosads}While the Senate panel plans to approve the report this
week to conclude a three-year inquiry, that does not mean it will be made public. The approval will trigger a
review by the White House, intelligence community and lawmakers over what
should be unclassified.

Human-rights groups are renewing their calls for the release
of the report as the vote approaches this week, which McCain said he would
support.

McCain also reiterated his belief that the use of enhanced
interrogation techniques did not lead to information that helped U.S. forces
kill Osama bin Laden.

“We did not get any meaningful information unclassified, we
did not get any meaningful information by torturing people,” McCain said.

Feinstein has made similar statements, but some Republicans
argue that the intelligence gained from enhanced interrogation helped track bin
Laden down.

The debate over torture has also
surfaced in reviews of the new film about the bin Laden raid, titled “Zero Dark
Thirty,” which includes scenes showing detainees subjected to techniques like
waterboarding.