"Congress should insist..." (assuming they have cojones, of course)

Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham may propose language early this week as an amendment to the defense operations bill. Their measure would require all interrogations to be conducted according to the norms of the Army manual and forbid "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment of all foreign detainees. Currently, the administration contends that prisoners held by the CIA abroad may be subject to such abuse.

The GOP amendment could correct some of the most serious problems behind the continuing scandal over abuses of prisoners at Guantanamo, the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and elsewhere. Yet rather than work with the Republican senators, the White House is crudely threatening to veto the defense bill if it contains any language on prisoners. The administration's message is that Congress should have no say over how the United States questions or prosecutes the thousands of foreigners it is holding, including those on American bases. Just such highhandedness helped get the administration into the mess it faces with foreign detainees. Congress should insist on a different approach.

c'mon, wapo... let's not lapse into another chemically-induced pipe dream... bushco is bound and determined to continue its systematic dismantling of the separate-but-equal, checks and balances-driven, constitutionally-mandated tri-partite branches of government... congress "insisting" on a "different approach" would be a reasonable suggestion if we were talking about a reasonable administration - but we're not... any semblance of reason disappeared in late 2000 in florida...

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