Mirabelli (and Other News)

President Backs McCain Measure on Inmate Abuse — The McCain amendment removes the “gray zone” of tactics less severe than torture but harsher than those allowed by the Army Field Manual… — Will this still be so when the latest addendum to the Field Manual comes out? (We linked to this yesterday: The addendum . . . goes into exacting detail on what procedures may or may not be used, and in what circumstances. Army interrogators have never had a set of such specific guidelines that would help teach them how to walk right up to the line between legal and illegal interrogations.)
Feingold Now Has Numbers on His Side — PATRIOT Act in jeopardy. (That’s not a bad thing.)
Red Sox GMs Turn to Business — …traded backup catcher Doug Mirabelli to San Diego for second baseman Mike Loretta. —