He knew torture first hand, yet he switched his vote and personal conviction such that it followed his party's current policy, which contradicted his own.
No one could understand why he went against his own convictions or what influences were behind his sudden and inexplicable shift away from his convictions.
But, there it was, John McCain, war hero and POW who was tortured for 5 1/2 years in Vietnam was no longer against torture.
That's the background. So, I'm wandering around the internets with the TV tuned to Robert Greewald's documentary
http://iraqforsale.org/index.php">Iraq For Sale:The War Profiteers. And someone from the TV said the one of the contractors responsible for the interrogations at Abu Ghraib,
http://iraqforsale.org/caci.php">CACI were hired from Arizona!
I stop surfing and listen to the TV to make sure I heard what I thought I heard. Then, I ask google to help me find something about CACI and Arizona.
I found a Common Dreams article,
Meet the New Interrogators: Lockheed Martin, which said:
"The issue of private contractors in interrogation did not come to light until mid-2004, when a military investigation revealed that several interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison were civilian employees of CACI. The contract to the Virginia-based company was also issued by the Department of Interior's Sierra Vista, Arizona office, located a stone's throw from the headquarters of the Army's main interrogation school."
That's not much of a connection. But, hey this is the internets and I'm not a reporter, so I go snooping some more.
I find out that the lobbyist McCain was connected to by the New York Times,
Vicky Iseman, worked for the firm, Alcalde & Fay, and they
used to do work for CACI.
My question is: did McCain somehow profit from torture at Abu Ghraib through CACI?