[Mb-civic] White House Aims to Block Legislation on Detainees - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

White House Aims to Block Legislation on Detainees

By Josh White and R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 23, 2005; Page A01

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.

Vice President Cheney met Thursday evening with three senior Republican 
members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to press the 
administration's case that legislation on these matters would usurp the 
president's authority and -- in the words of a White House official -- 
interfere with his ability "to protect Americans effectively from 
terrorist attack."

<>It was the second time that Cheney has met with Senate members to tamp 
down what the White House views as an incipient Republican rebellion. 
The lawmakers have publicly expressed frustration about what they 
consider to be the administration's failure to hold any senior military 
officials responsible for notorious detainee abuse in Iraq and the U.S. 
military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201727.html?nav=hcmodule 

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