Senate Questions Defense Department on Interrogation Practices

The Bush Administration's policy towards detaining "enemy combatants" is beginning to crumble under the pressure of official and public scrutiny. Last week the US Supreme Court gave prisoners in Guantanamo the right to challenge their detention in court. On Sunday, McClatchy newspapers published the results of an 8-month investigation into prisoner treatment in US detention centers abroad. It found that possibly hundreds of people had been wrongfully imprisoned and held on –quote- "flimsy or fabricated evidence, old personal scores or bounty payments." Many of these prisoners were beaten and abused by US Soldiers.Today another question is circulating in Washington DC: How did U.S. soldiers end up using their enemy's own torture techniques against them? That's what a Senate committee is asking Defense Department officials. Tanya Snyder has this report from Capitol Hill.

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