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Torture's Terrible Toll Biographical Visit John McCain's official website for a biography and photos of the Arizona senator, war veteran, and presidential candidate.http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorMcCain.BiographyBiography.com features an up-to-date bio of John McCain, including links to videos, a photo gallery, and a list of his publications. http://www.biography.com/featured-biography/john-mccain/During the 2008 presidential election, McCain supporters kept up with news about the candidate on his blog; it's no longer updated, but the site remains a piece of history. http://www.mccainsblog.com/This New York Review of Books article takes a look at three recent, rather critical books about McCain--Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock and Paul Waldman; The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him—and Why Independents Shouldn't by Cliff Schecter; and McCain: The Myth of a Maverick by Matt Welch. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21470Cultural Watch this CSPAN video, from a 2008 Town Hall Meeting in Iowa, to hear John McCain decry torture. "It's not like 24; this is real life," the senator says, and "it's not in keeping with what America's supposed to be." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHd5tuneeMKeith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow discuss a "flip-flop" in McCain's position on this issue after McCain voted against a bill that would have defined waterboarding as torture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVf_fTSDP8&feature=relatedIn this opinion piece for the Huffington Post, Sam Harris makes a case that torture is an "ethical necessity in the war on terror." Click here to read "In Defense of Torture." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/in-defense-of-torture_b_8993.htmlBibliographical McCain recalls five years in captivity and the horrors he faced as a torture victim in his 1999 memoir Faith of My Fathers. Here is an excerpt, courtesy of Bookbrowse: http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=200Jonathan Karp has edited five books by John McCain. Read this Newsweek piece by the editor to hear first-hand what it was like to work with the senator—and what McCain's writing tells us about him. http://www.newsweek.com/id/161212 |