Who was sent to Iraq to get answers????
The man Donald Rumsfield chose to go to Iraq to get answers was Major General Geoffrey Miller, valued for his part in running the prison operations at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. After becoming very frustrated with the lack of intel the Americans were receiving in Iraq Donald Rumsfield sent General Geoffrey Miller based on what he knew of the things General Miller had implemented at Guantanamo Bay. General Miller was known for "getting results." He had implemented using harsher interrogation techniques in order to get information from the detainees at Guantanamo. FBI later released what they found when visiting Guantanamo prison. The practices of chaining detainees, leaving them in their own urine and feces without food or water were released. In response Donald Rumsfield was pressured to respond. He issued a memo approving several "enhancing interrogation techniques." Things that were approved in the memo included some of the following:- solitary confinement
- noise
- light/dark (enhanced or extreme sensory disorientation)
- stress positions
- phobias
- removal of clothing - this included sexual orientation techniques
**** In August of 2003 General Miller was sent to Iraq.
Upon General Miller's arrival in Iraq he voiced his opinion that the "prisoners were being treated to well, and they don't know who is in charge." After the visit of General Miller, General Ricardo Sanchez released a memo about extreme techniques. Only a month later he rescinded some of the approved techniques he had issued before. The situation this leaves in the Abu Ghraib prison facility is confusion and misunderstanding. The MPs reported that things were very unclear and "nobody could answer questions for us." They were removed from their original order and placed under the control of military intelligence. They were no longer considered the guards when this shift of control happened. They were then part of the interrogation staff.
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