General promised quick results if Gitmo plan used at Abu Ghraib: "Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller promised that 'a significant improvement in actionable intelligence will be realized within 30 days.' His strategy involved having military police acting as prison guards 'setting the conditions to exploit internees to respond to questions.'
The recommendations in Miller's 12-page report were based on the interrogation operation he supervised at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where suspected members of al-Qaeda are held. The report lists a roster of the 17-person team culled entirely from the Guantanamo operation. The team spent 10 days at Abu Ghraib with Miller in late summer, before he submitted the plan. Several interrogation teams from Guantanamo subsequently trained those at Abu Ghraib.
By Oct. 12, the Army moved ahead with Miller's strategy to team guards and interrogators, an approach at odds with long-established military doctrine."
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