On September 22, 2006, Senator John McCain told Matt Lauer:
There will be so such thing as waterboarding. We outlined the breaches of conduct and you will never see that again and we stood up and said that will not be done. Most importantly we said we will not change the Geneva Conventions. We're very proud of what we did.
The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.
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Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war, has consistently voiced opposition to waterboarding and other methods that critics say is a form torture. But the Republicans, confident of a White House veto, did not mount the challenge. Mr. McCain voted “no” on Wednesday afternoon.
