Dirty Sanchez

Or, more to the point, lying dirty Sanchez.

Gen. Ricardo Sanchez tesified to Congress and had the following exchange with Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI):

REED: General Sanchez, today's USA Today, sir, reported that you 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.

REED: Is that correct?

SANCHEZ: Sir, that may be correct that it's in a news article, but I never approved any of those measures to be used within CJTF-7 at any time in the last year.

Well, the ACLU got a hold of a document, sent by Gen. Sanchez, dated September 14, 2003 (fully 8 months earlier), in which he "laid out specific interrogation techniques, modeled on those used against detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for use by coalition forces in Iraq. These include sleep 'management,' the inducement of fear at two levels of severity, loud music and sensory agitation, and the use of canine units to 'exploit [the] Arab fear of dogs.'"

Lying to the Senate... is that perjury? I'm not sure because the Pope just died and I can only keep one thing in my head at a time. But I think it's perjury. Maybe one day some Democratic staffer will ruffle through some papers and figure it out too.

Hunter at Kos notes the up-is-down priorities of this nation:

News stories matching "ACLU + Iraq + Sanchez": 101.

News stories matching "Schiavo": 79,300