Sorry for the thread duplication, but this actually a diiferent slant on the same story. The ACLU is filing suit about Human Rights abuses which Sanchez, Rumsfeld and others are accused of overseeing. However, a potentially even more grave crime is the one which Sanchez committed in his testimony before Congress, namely PERJURY.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=625909"In the September 2003 memo, Gen Sanchez authorised the use of 29 techniques for interrogating prisoners being held by the US. These included stress positions, "yelling, loud music and light control" as well as the use of muzzled military dogs in order to "exploit Arab fear of dogs". Some of the most notorious photographs to emerge from the Abu Ghraib scandal showed hand-cuffed, naked Iraqi prisoners cowering from snarling dogs."
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"When he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2004, Gen Sanchez flatly refused approving such techniques in Iraq, and said that a news article reporting otherwise was false. "I never approved any of those measures to be used ... at any time in the last year," he said under oath. The ACLU accuses him of committing perjury and has asked the Attorney General to investigate. In a letter to Alberto Gonzales, the group said: "Gen Sanchez's testimony, given under oath before the Senate Armed Services committee, is utterly inconsistent with the written record, and deserves serious investigation. This clear breach of the public's trust is also further proof that the American people deserve the appointment of an independent special counsel by the Attorney General'"
Congress does not usually take being lied to lightly, even when those doing the lying are allied to people of the same party. Sen. Artlen Spectre head of the Senate Judiciary Committe is a relatively independent Republican. I strongly urge everyone to write to him and to all members of the House and Senate Judiciary Commitees and to their own Congress members and to their local newspapers demanding that Gen Sanchez be called to account for the lies which he told to Congress.
No on is above the law, and if he is allowed to get away with perjury before Congress then what use is sworn testimony?