House calls for details on overseas detentions

[Judi Lynn]

House calls for details on overseas detentions
Presses for language in final defense bill
By Liz Sidoti, Associated Press | December 17, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The House called yesterday for the Bush administration to give Congress details of secret detention facilities overseas, a day after President Bush agreed to a proposal to ban cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of terrorism detainees in US custody.

The GOP-run House voted 228 to 187 for a resolution to urge -- but not force -- House-Senate negotiators to include in a final defense bill language requiring national intelligence director John Negroponte to provide classified reports to House and Senate intelligence committees on such facilities.

Although the vote was symbolic, it showed that the issue of the treatment of detainees has not been completely defused, despite Bush's acceptance Thursday of a proposal by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, to bar harsh treatment of terrorist suspects. And it indicated that Republican lawmakers are not afraid to buck the president on the issue.

The administration has declined to confirm news reports that the CIA runs secret detention facilities abroad. But lawmakers from both parties say they have been troubled by the reports, and the Senate inserted the disclosure provision, sponsored by John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, into its version of the defense bill.
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/12/17/house_calls_for_details_on_overseas_detentions/

[rodeodance]

1. I am surprized to see this from the House--yet suppose they can home

now and say they are against torture.

Although the vote was symbolic,/////