07/05

When Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee last year, he was asked whether he 'ordered or approved the use of sleep deprivation, intimidation by guard dogs, excessive noise, and inducing fear as an interrogation method for a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison.' Sanchez, who was head of the Pentagon's Combined Joint Task Force-7 in Iraq, swore the answer was no. Under oath, he told the Senators he 'never approved any of those measures to be used.' But a document the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained from the Pentagon flat out contradicts Sanchez's testimony. It’s a memorandum entitled 'CJTF-7 Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy,' dated September 14, 2003. In it, Sanchez approved several methods designed for 'significantly increasing the fear level in a detainee...

http://www.progressive.org/july05/roth0705.php

from The Progressive, by Matthew Rothschild


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp