http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-05-18-harsh-tactics_x.htmWASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez approved the use of sleep deprivation, intimidation by guard dogs, excessive noise and inducing fear as interrogation methods against a single Iraqi inmate at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a description in the classified annex of a military report on prisoner abuse in Iraq.
A government official who has read most of the 6,000-page classified portion of a report by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba said the document describes a case in which Sanchez, the senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, approved specific techniques to induce an Iraqi prisoner to talk. The official described in detail the Taguba report's account of the incident. Access to the classified portions of the report is limited.
The disclosure comes a week after Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the Army's senior intelligence officer, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he was "not aware of any situation where Gen. Sanchez gave written approval or requested" any of the harsh interrogation methods.
The special interrogation techniques were authorized in guidance used by the U.S. Central Command, which is running the Iraq military operation.
They were put in place in last July, shortly after the end of the major-combat phase of the invasion, as a way of extracting intelligence from reluctant prisoners. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said Pentagon lawyers approved use of the harsh techniques, but in practice, they required specific, case-by-case approval by the field commander, Sanchez.
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only one? yeah, right.