The White House on Thursday threatened to veto a massive Senate bill for $442 billion in next year's defense programs if it moves to regulate the Pentagon's treatment of detainees or sets 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 horrendous abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, put lawmakers on notice it did not want them legislating on the matter.
The Bush strategy is now clear: hire Halliburton to provide the world's largest rug on a no-bid, cost-plus basis, and start sweeping as frantically as humanly possible.
But with prominent Republicans refusing to play along (and neither McCain nor Graham was buying the White House line), this isn't going to work. As well it shouldn't.
(Via Kos and Digby.)
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