Rick Santorum Says John McCain Doesn’t Understand Interrogation

Republican GOP hopeful Rick Santorum, on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, took issue with John McCain’s op-ed on torture, saying McCain doesn’t really know how it works.

“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,” Santorum said. “And so this idea that we didn’t ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he (McCain) 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,” said Santorum.

John McCain’s office responded via Greg Sargent, saying of Santorum:

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By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.