White House Aims to Block Legislation on Detainees
The Bush administration in recent days has been lobbying to block legislation supported by Republican senators that would bar the U.S. military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual.
Apparently John McCain and other moderate Republicans are hoping to preempt a more sweeping Democratic bill calling for a 9/11-style Commission to investigate torture of American prisoners.