oops! Don't you hate it when other people in the so-called free, civilized world find more secret evidence of your government approved torture program. Better call in the apologists.

Memo Shows U.S. Inmate Interrogation Plans in Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Iraq authorized prisoner
interrogation tactics more harsh than accepted Army practice, including using
guard dogs to exploit "Arab fear of dogs," a memo made public on Tuesday showed.

The Sept. 14, 2003, memo by Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, then the
senior commander in Iraq, was released by the American Civil Liberties Union,
which obtained it from the government under court order through the Freedom of
Information Act.

"The memo clearly establishes that Gen. Sanchez authorized unlawful
interrogation techniques for use in Iraq, and in particular these techniques
violate the Geneva Conventions and the Army's own field manual governing
interrogations," ACLU lawyer Amrit Singh said in an interview.