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Saturday 12 May 2018

McCain, even in illness, sparks lively, timely debates

By LISA MASCARO Bloomberg, the former McCain has said he gave
AP Congressional Corre- mayor of New York, on Fri- inaccurate information af-
spondent day. ter being tortured. Fox said
WASHINGTON (AP) — John Close friend and political McInerney would not be in-
McCain is not signing off ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, vited back on its business or
quietly. R-S.C., visited McCain news channels.
As in so much of the sena- this week, and the two Still, one of McCain’s long-
tor’s extraordinary life, the watched an old movie and time sparring partners, Sen.
rebellious Republican is talked about McCain’s im- Rand Paul R-Ky., re-affirmed
facing this challenging print on politics. his opposition to Haspel on
chapter — battling brain Graham said he told Mc- Friday.
cancer — in his own rule- Cain he will leave behind In explaining his opposition,
breaking way, stirring up a long list of Republicans Paul said, “We shouldn’t re-
old fights and starting new — and Democrats — he ward somebody who par-
ones. Rarely has the sick- has mentored, Graham in- ticipated in torture, really
bed been so lively. cluded. still has trouble saying and
McCain is promoting a new In this Oct. 25, 2017 file photo, Senate Armed Services Chair- “Your legacy is the people articulating that it’s an im-
book, delivering a counter- man John McCain, R-Ariz., pauses before speaking to report- you affected,” Graham moral thing.”
punch of ideals contrary to ers during a meeting of the National Defense Authorization Act said he told his friend. “John Just a few years ago, Mc-
President Donald Trump’s conferees, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCain’s going to have a Cain called Paul and fel-
running of the White House. Associated Press hell of a legacy.” low Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas,
McCain’s long-distance White House official’s cruel Perhaps no one should Not everyone, though, is “wacko birds” for their fili-
rejection of CIA director joke that his positions don’t have expected anything so keen to listen to McCain buster blocking then-CIA
nominee Gina Haspel’s his- matter because “he’s dy- less from the 81-year- these days. nominee John Brennan.
tory with torture goaded ing anyway.” old senator, who can be Most Republican senators McCain later apologized.
former Vice President Dick If this is Washington’s long crotchety and cantan- are not heeding his advice After McCain’s recent hos-
Cheney into a fresh de- goodbye to a sometimes kerous but is also seen by to reject Haspel, who was pitalization for an intestinal
bate over waterboarding favorite son, it’s also a re- many, both in and out of chief of base of a deten- infection, Graham said he
and other now-banned emergence of old resent- politics, as an American tion site where terror sus- was worried about his old
interrogation techniques. ments and political fault hero, flaws and all. pects were waterboarded. friend’s health.
On Friday, friends rallied to lines that continue to split Former Vice President Joe McCain lived through But after seeing him this
defend McCain against a the nation. Biden said Friday as Mc- years of captivity during week, he decided McCain
Cain “fights for his life, he the Vietnam War.Trump will “be with us for a while.”
deserves better — so much has suggested reviving the The two weren’t quite yet
better.” now-banned brutal inter- saying their goodbyes. In
“Our children learn from our rogation techniques. And fact, “there’s not talk of
Paradise in the Caribbean example,” Biden said. “The Cheney, who was an ar- funerals, there’s talk of the
lingering question is: Whose chitect of the post-Sept. future,” Graham said.
example will it be? I am 11, 2001, strategy, said he They watched a classic
certain it will be John’s.” would keep the program Western, “The Man Who
Said House Speaker Paul active and ready for de- Shot Liberty Valance” —
Ryan, “His legacy is so long ployment, and doesn’t with McCain narrating
that John McCain is a hero think it amounted to tor- along the way in words
to us all.” ture. “People want to go that cannot be repeated
McCain was diagnosed in back and try to rewrite his- — and talked about Mc-
July with glioblastoma, an tory, but if it were my call, Cain’s book, which Gra-
aggressive brain cancer. I’d do it again,” Cheney ham says couldn’t have
He left Washington in De- told Fox Business. come at a better time. “I
cember and few expect One retired Air Force gen- told him it should be re-
him to return. Up-and- eral, Tom McInerney, quired reading,” he said.
down reports of his health called McCain “songbird It’s a story about the coun-
shift every few days. John” on the same station try, and “even though we
A steady stream of visitors this week for allegedly pro- make our share of mis-
have stopped by the Mc- viding information to the takes, we’re always trying
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