More details are emerging on what exactly is contained in that controversial $80 billion military spending bill passed by Congress this week. In a little-noticed provision, Congress bans the government from using any money in the bill to subject anyone in US custody to torture or “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” that is forbidden by the Constitution. Drafted since the disclosure of abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq and at Guantánamo Prison Camp in Cuba, it lays out a definition of illegal treatment that human rights groups say is broader than the Bush administration’s current interpretation, and links the ban directly to military spending. The measure draws no distinction between US citizens and foreign prisoners, placing it at odds with statements of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who said foreign prisoners had very few rights.