We have to get out from under the blow to our authority caused by the torture and detainee issues.

Stimson continues to write on detainee issues.

There should be a lot of what are politely called detainee issues to talk about by then.

On Tuesday, Democrats dismissed the administration's document release as highly selective and said it failed to address important questions about its handling of detainee issues.

The Pentagon's chief adviser on detainee issues is leaving to take a high-level policy job at the State Department, administration officials said on Saturday.

As it emerged, Mr. Colvin had significant evidence to offer on the detainee issue.

The American Civil Liberties Union welcomed the memo as "a first big step" toward ending "four years of lawlessness" on detainee issues.

The detainee issue is increasingly contentious.

He, too, had experience with the detainee issue, having spent months working to overhaul what many military officers saw as a flawed screening process for prisoners at Guantánamo.

One of them, Matthew C. Waxman, was Mr. Rumsfeld's chief aide for detainee issues.