I guess "Dirty" Sanchez Really Did Fit In Saturday's Washington Post the noose "cat-o-nine tails" gets tighter around the Bush Administration. Remember they were pushing the "few bad apples" story, but that story is falling away faster than a Jennifer Lopez marriage.

Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure interrogation tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and approved letting senior officials at a Baghdad jail use military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation, and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished, according to newly obtained documents. The U.S. policy, details of which have not been previously disclosed, was approved in early September, shortly after an Army general sent from Washington completed his inspection of the Abu Ghraib jail and then returned to brief Pentagon officials on his ideas for using military police there to help implement the new high-pressure methods. The documents obtained by The Washington Post spell out in greater detail than previously known the interrogation tactics Sanchez authorized, and make clear for the first time that, before last October, they could be imposed without first seeking the approval of anyone outside the prison. That gave officers at Abu Ghraib wide latitude in handling detainees

. Well boys and girls this is getting awful close to the very top of the food chain now isn't it? Why, yes, the Washington Post goes on to answer, yes it is.

Soldier Described White House Interest Staff Requested Data From Abu Ghraib, Probers Told By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 9, 2004; Page A03 The head of the interrogation center at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told an Army investigator in February that he understood some of the information being collected from prisoners there had been requested by "White House staff," according to an account of his statement obtained by The Washington Post...