[tobyhill]

It blows my mind also with how easy the request by the President is. All the administration wants is congressional guidelines but the Congress, at least the RINOs, don't want to set guidelines because it takes away their subjective criticism.

[churchillbuff]

All the administration wants is congressional guidelines """

No, the administration has written "guidelines" of its own. And they want Congress to ratify them. Why have we been able to function under the Geneva convention for more than 50 years without a need to "clarify" the supposedly "vague" provisions? Maybe we never did the kind of treatment of prisoners, before, that's happening now? I'm not sure that's progress.