Guantanamo Bay, Cuba served as a detention prison where “high-valued detainees” were kept. It was here where Major General Geoffrey Miller, in charge of Guantanamo Bay, used harsh interrogation techniques. The sole purpose of this prison was to gain intelligence at all cost, while using the harshest interrogation methods. No one, except military personnel had access to Guantanamo Bay; therefore, it was more difficult for the public to uncover the inhumane conditions prisoners were subjected to. The techniques that interrogators used could be easily manipulated. Sec. Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved Miller’s techniques in his Action Memo in November of 2002. In fact, he wrote at the bottom of the Memo “However, I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours? D.R.”. The techniques he approved were solitary confinement, stress positions, forced nudity, psychological techniques. In August of 2003 General Miller was sent to Iraq to implement harsher interrogation techniques, in hopes of gaining intelligent information from detainees. Furthermore, Ricardo Sanchez issued another memo enforcing even harsher interrogation techniques. These new techniques meant more compromising situations that MPs were left in. They witnessed the forced nudity of prisoners, the stress positions that they endured, yet they never questioned their superiors.
