Senators May Question Bremer on Prison Abuses

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In a move that would push hearings into September or after the November elections, Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) Chairman John Warner said his committee would hold hearings as seven Pentagon reviews of U.S. abuse of detainees in Iraq (news - web sites), Afghanistan (news - web sites) and elsewhere are finished.


"As soon as the reports are completed, I will address the reports, hopefully in open hearing. And I can't predict when they'll be completed," Warner said.


He said he would hold hearings as individual reports are available instead of waiting for all of them to be done.


Warner, a Virginia Republican, said he was trying to arrange an open hearing for next week with Bremer, the former U.S. administrator in Iraq who stepped down with the transfer of sovereignty to an interim government on June 28.