来自亚利桑那州的美国共和党资深参议员约翰·麦凯恩曾在上世纪60年代至70年代初为美征战中被俘,并被关押在越南河内的一个战俘营里。在参议院情报委员会今天(12月9日)早些时候公布有关中情局自“9·11”事件以来的虐囚报告之后,麦凯恩发表了讲话。鉴于上述背景,麦凯恩的讲话值得关注。他说:“酷刑损害了我们区别于敌人的最显著特征”;那些使用酷刑的中情局特工“玷污了我们的国家荣誉”。这是一个大胆的说法,但却并不一定言过其实。参议院的报告调查了大约从“9·11”恐怖袭击到2008年布什总统任期结束期间中情局使用酷刑的情况。对中情局而言,这份报 John McCain, a senior Republican from the Arizona State Senator, was captured during the U.S. campaign in the 1960s and early 1970s and was held in a prison camp in Hanoi, Vietnam. McCain made a speech after the Senate Intelligence Committee announced today (December 9) a report on the abuse of prisoners since the CIA incident on September 11. In view of the above background, McCain’s speech deserves attention. He said: “Torture undermined our most distinctive feature of being different from the enemy”; those CIA agents who tortured “tarnished our national honor.” This is a bold statement, but not necessarily exaggerated. The Senate report investigated the CIA’s use of torture from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to the end of President Bush’s presidency in 2008. For the CIA, this newspaper