Bin Laden ‘not tracked via torture techniques’
McCain, who spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, also rejected the argument that any form of torture is critical to US success in the fight against terrorism.
In an impassioned speech on the Senate floor, the Arizona Republican said former attorney general Michael Mukasey and others who supported those kind of measures were wrong to claim that waterboarding al-Qaida’s No 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, provided information that led to bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.
