Allen, Vicki. “White House threatens veto on detainee policies.” Reuters, July 21, 2005.

Summary: The Republican administration announced its intention to veto the appropriations bill for the Department of Defense if it contains amendments, currently being considered in Congress, to regulate the treatment of detainees or to create a commission that would look into the torture of detainees at our concentration camps at Guantanamo and elsewhere. The White House press office issued a statement saying that such amendments would “interfere with the protection of Americans from terrorism by diverting resources from the war.”