No. They're doing their Constitutional duty. Baseball ain't in the Constitution.
I noticed you failed to come back with a correction stating that you were mistaken about Congress being on a path to grant rights to EPWs. This is about clarifying the rules. Maybe even making some where they didn't exist.
"just wait until the ICC is permitted to arrest and prosecute him for being too mean to the guy who's trying to saw his head off in the middle of a war."
This has absolutely nothing to do with an Int Criminal Court. Also, your not allowed to be mean and mistreat your prisoners. WHAT PART OF THAT DON"T YOU UNDERSTAND?
That's all this is really about. The ability to mistreat prisoners in the dark, out of the publics eye. This is about the ability to mistreat and torture them at your pleasure, because you think you can make them talk, they deserve it, or some other justification. That's the way of cowards and tyrants, not the way of the US.
And by mistreat, of course you mean things like turning the air conditioner up too high, touching the Quran without being Muslim, playing loud music, having pretty ladies strut around in their underwear, etc., right? Because those are the sort of things that will be curtailed by regulations like this. Not real abuse, which is already against the rules, and which is already punishable by court martial.
These rules will be abused to the detriment of this country! WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
War is about hurting your enemy! WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
Nobody has ever produced evidence of actual torture! Not at Abu Ghraib; not anywhere else. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
The interrogation techniques that have been used have proven effective, saving many innocent lives. Humiliation, intimidation and fear are not torture!
Since this concept seems to be lost on you, here are some examples of real, documented cruelty and torture: