Ethics

Worst Persons: Rick “The Frothy” Santorum

Rick "The Frothy" Santorum issuing a rebuttal to John McCain regarding the merits of torture.

I don't, everything I've read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation. And so this idea that we didn't ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they're broken, they become cooperative. And that's when we got this information. And one thing led to another, and led to another, and that's how we ended up with bin Laden.

I'm far away from being a John McCain fan, but this is simply awful -- telling someone who actually has been tortured that they don't understand how torture works.