Detainee Rules May Lead to Veto

[Judi Lynn]

July 22, 2005 latimes.com : National Politics Print E-mail story Most E-mailed

Detainee Rules May Lead to Veto
The White House tells the Senate it does not want restrictions in a defense spending bill.

From Reuters

WASHINGTON — The White House threatened Thursday to veto a Senate bill providing $442 billion for defense programs if it included restrictions on the Pentagon's treatment of detainees or set up a commission to investigate operations at Guantanamo Bay prison and elsewhere.

The Bush administration, under fire for the indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and questions over whether its policies led to abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, put lawmakers on notice that it did not want them legislating on the matter.

"If legislation is presented that would restrict the president's authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice," the bill could be vetoed, the White House said in a statement.

Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee were considering a range of amendments intended to prevent further abuses after the scandal over mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison and degrading interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
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1. Bush may veto if congress sets up a commission to investigate?

Bush may veto if congress sets up a commission to investigate operations at Guantanamo Bay prison and elsewhere? Another case of "you can't investigate me, I'm the president." That sentence alone should be front page news.

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