Specter to push for Congress to establish foreign detainee rule

Sunday, June 5, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The continuing uproar over U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib has a top Senate Republican looking at the need to clarify in law the rights of foreign detainees.

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