Iraq prison abuse approved all the way to the top

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1918.shtml

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=625909

Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top
Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions.

Andrew Buncombe reports from Washington
03 April 2005

America's leading civil liberties group has demanded an investigation into the former US military commander Iraq after a formerly classified memo revealed that he personally sanctioned a series of coercive interrogation techniques outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The group claims that his directives were directly linked to the sort of abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib.

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We think that the techniques authorised by Gen Sanchez were certainly responsible for putting into play the sort of abuses that we saw at Abu Ghraib," Amirit Singh, an ACLU lawyer, told The Independent on Sunday. "And it does not just stop with Sanchez. It goes to Rumsfeld, who wrote memos authorising these sorts of techniques at Guantanamo Bay."

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the ACLU said the reason for the delay in delivering the more than 1,200 pages of documents in which the memo was contained was "evident in the contents", which included reports of brutal beatings and sworn statements that soldiers were told to "beat the fuck out of" prisoners.


So Sanchez committed perjury (LIED) and it goes all the way up to Rumsfeld. What a shocker.

Ah-so this is why O'Rielly is so anti-ACLU? Be less transparent will ya?


It makes me sick.

But it is always good to get the goods on those scumbags.