Houston Chronicle

11/06/05

A leading Republican senator said today that the Bush administration is making 'a terrible mistake' in opposing a congressional ban on torture and other inhuman treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. Sen. Chuck Hagel, considered a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said many Republican senators support the ban proposed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp