On Capitol Hill, the Senate Intelligence Committee plans to hold a closed-door meeting to discuss the prison scandal today. Senators complained yesterday that they only learned of the abuse problem via the media last week. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said, “We need to know why we weren’t told what went on.” Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota said Rumsfeld gave Senators a classified briefing last week on Iraq but never mentioned that 60 Minutes was just hours away from broadcasting images of Iraqi prisoners being abused and tortured. Daschle said, “Why were we not told in a classified briefing why this happened, and that it happened at all? That is inexcusable; it’s an outrage.”