We must not forget Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez' 2004 perjury

this is only a small part of the recent aclu release of department of defense documents it received in a foia request...

[A] May 19, 2004 Defense Intelligence Agency document implicating Sanchez in potentially abusive interrogation techniques. In the document, an officer in charge of a team of interrogators stated that there was a 35-page order spelling out the rules of engagement that interrogators were supposed to follow, and that they were encouraged to "go to the outer limits to get information from the detainees by people who wanted the information." When asked to whom the officer was referring, the officer answered "LTG Sanchez." The officer stated that the expectation coming from "Headquarters" was to break the detainees.

we must not forget that general ricardo sanchez appeared before the senate armed services committee on may 19, 2004, and perjured himself under oath when questioned whether or not he authored a memorandum of september 14, 2003, authorizing the use of torture techniques in abu ghraib in contravention of geneva... i posted about it in april 2005 along with a transcription of the memorandum... (i labored over making the transcription as a public service because the aclu pdf's were difficult to access and read...)

sanchez has never been charged with perjury for that instance of outright lying... perhaps it's time now to think about it... god knows, it's long overdue...

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