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 Mr. Gonzales's Record
 
   INVESTIGATIONS have determined that some U.S. interrogators who tortured Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison reasonably believed that their actions had been authorized by a memorandum from the headquarters of Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who approved such techniques as hooding, imposing "stress positions" and using  dogs to inspire fear. According to one official report, although those methods clearly violate the Geneva Conventions, they were sanctioned by Gen. Sanchez's legal staff "using reasoning from the president's memorandum of February 7, 2002," which determined that the conventions should be set aside for people deemed "unlawful combatants."
 
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