Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senators said on Sunday they were troubled by a report that U.S. intelligence officials secretly transferred as many as a dozen detainees out of Iraq in the last six months, possibly violating international treaties.

In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican who has campaigned for President Bush in his re-election bid, warned against violating international treaties that aim to ensure humane treatment of prisoners and civilians during a war.

“These conventions and these rules are in place for a reason, because you get on a slippery slope and you don’t know where to get off,” McCain, who was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, said.

“The thing that separates us from the enemy is our respect for human rights.”

McCain said the report in Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post about the CIA invoking a confidential memo written by the Justice Department to secretly transfer detainees out of Iraq was “another argument” for revamping the intelligence agency.

I’m pretty sure Senator McCain isn’t ignorant of Bush’s record on human rights… Sad to see a so-called straight shooter whore it up like this.