I think the interrogations were in violation of the Geneva Convention against torture that we ratified under President Reagan. I think that these interrogations, once publicized, helped al Qaeda recruit.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in an interview on Face the Nation, on the Bush administration’s interrogation methods. In a related Time piece, McCain says his private comments about harsh interrogation methods were misrepresented by the Bush Administration in a recently released legal document.