PRISONER ABUSE

TORTURE

The White House is asking Senator John McCain of all people to put in an exception to his amendment to a military spending bill, that would ban the use of cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of any detainee held by the United States.

McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was abused while being held, would be the last person to give any excepttions to an entity of the goverment to use torture against a detainee.