Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal
The legislation comes in the wake of the 
 and allegations of Human Rights Watch, which, in a recent report, accused soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division of "systematically torturing Iraqi detainees". The report was critizised by a Department of Defense spokesman as using "distortions and errors in fact."
President Bush may veto amendment that bans detainee mistreatment