Friar Louie and Toby Blome attended Senate Committee Hearing in D.C.

by Barbara Deutsch

Fri, Jul 14, 2006 9:05PM

Friar Louie Vitale and Toby Blome, of San Francisco, stand in protest July 13th during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
--Photo: Washingon Post

Policy Rewrite Reveals Rift in Administration
Top Officials Split on Treatment of Detainees

By R. Jeffrey Smith and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 14, 2006

Three days of congressional testimony this week by senior Bush administration officials about U.S. treatment of detainees in the war on terrorism have made clear that the administration remains deeply divided on the issue and unsure how to replace a key policy that the Supreme Court declared illegal two weeks ago.

Interagency divisions normally kept hidden from public view have been on unusual display as officials from the Justice Department and the Pentagon have offered starkly different accounts of the administration's reaction to the court's opinion, baffling members of Congress and other interested parties about U.S. intentions....
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