Creating a Select Committee on Prison Abuses

Rep. Waxman, alongside Democratic Leader Pelosi, Armed Services Ranking Member Skelton, and nine other congressional leaders, introduces legislation to create a select committee in the House to investigate the abuses of detainees held in U.S. custody in Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere.



The bill would “creat[e] a select committee to investigate the abuses of detainees held in
United States custody in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation
Enduring Freedom, or any operation within the Global War on
Terrorism, in particular those abuses that have been documented by
thousands of photographs and on video at Abu Ghraib prison.”