Meanwhile the Washington Post is reporting the Bush administration is supporting a provision in a new House intelligence bill would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused even though the action was prohibited by international laws against torture that the United States signed 20 years ago. The provision appears as part of the massive bill introduced Friday by Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert. According to the Post, it would apply to non-U.S. citizens who are suspected of having links to terrorist organizations but have not been tried or convicted of any charges. Human rights groups and members of Congress opposed to the provision say it could result in the torture of hundreds of people now held in the United States. Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch said “Since Abu Ghraib, everyone from the president to the Defense Department to Congress has said the United States does not have a policy of torture. If this passes, we will have a policy of tolerating torture.”