Major General Geoffrey Miller, Donald Rumsfeld, Ricardo Sanchez, and Interrogation Techniques

Geoffrey Miller, a favored member of the military by Donald Rumsfeld, was stationed in Guantanamo Bay where high-priority detainees were kept. Miller was ruthless. He employed any means necessary, including extremely dangerous and deplorable torture techniques in order to extract information from the detainees. Some of the techniques reported after an FBI investigation included chaining detainees by the hands and feet in the fetal position without food or water for nearly a day.

Later, the Bush Administration and the White House would release a document, the Action Memo of November 27, 2002, revealing that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had supported and encouraged the use of these inhumane techniques by Geoffrey Miller. Approximately eight months after the signing and release of this document that approved the use of extreme torture methods, Geoffrey Miller was moved to Iraq, in order to help extract information from the detainees by any means necessary.

Geoffrey Miller's arrival in Iraq meant harsher extraction strategies were to be employed. He believed that the soldiers were being too kind to the prisoners, and trying to adhere to some shadow of the Geneva Conventions. Since it had already been decided that the Geneva Conventions didn't apply, Miller encouraged the M.P.s to be harsher with their punishments. The techniques used were in complete violation of the Geneva Conventions, as well as other international laws ann United Nations statutes.

After Miller's arrival, General Ricardo Sanchez of the 372nd Military Police Company issued a memo on September 14th, 2003, retracting some of the torture methods he had previously supported and stated were necessary at Abu Ghraib. This led to confusion amongst the M.P.s as to what was appropriate and what was against their orders to interrogate. Abu Ghraib had become an asylum of naked prisoners being tortured, interrogated, and tortured some more. Most prisoners were now naked the duration of their stay. The arrival of Miller resulted in more extreme methods of torture and harsher investigation, resulting in not only the physical degradation of the mostly innocent prisoners, but emotional humiliation and trauma as well.