The House and Senate have now spoken loud and clear, with a single message ? the United States will not permit cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

He's tried very hard. But everybody recognized that he was having to go up against people who both outrank him and were deeply involved setting the policies that he was challenging.

I just wish we could get through to people that picking up a Salvadoran general in Miami and telling him he has to retire in Costa Rica is not a punishment. Yeah, you're evil, but you can go be evil somewhere else.

The battle about what that provision means has only just begun.

It makes you wonder: Has DOD learned nothing from this debacle?

This is what got us into problems in the first place.

That's why the McCain amendment is important, and that's why this language they're floating now would gut it,

Depriving an entire branch of government of its ability to exercise meaningful oversight is a decidedly wrong course to take.

Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.

I think things are really turning on this.