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    Will former POW John McCain help sink CIA nominee implicated in torture program?

    by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Apr 21, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Activists seeking to derail President Donald Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA are looking to Sen. John McCain to cast the deciding vote against her - assuming he is well enough to return to Washington.

    The 81-year-old Republican was diagnosed with brain cancer in July and last cast a vote in the Senate on early December before he returned home to Arizona for treatment. He underwent surgery in Phoenix for an intestinal infection on April 15.

    Haspel's critics are counting on McCain to speak out against her nomination, even if he can't cast a vote on the Senate floor, cementing his legacy as the country's most prominent critic of torture as he faces the twilight of his career.

    "Sen. McCain is essential," said Matt Hawthorne, policy director for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. "He

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