“…U.S. Army Commander Gen. James T. Hill and others recommended to the Joint Chiefs of Staff [General Richard Myers] the interrogation techniques adapted from Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training to be used on the prisoners at Guantanamo. SERE is the training program designed, in part, to teach military personnel how to resist severe interrogation techniques by enemy forces. The methods had been ‘reverse engineered’ to develop an interrogation program for use by U.S. forces. In a memorandum recommending adoption of severe interrogation techniques [on October 25, 2002], Hill stated that ‘Although I am cognizant of the important policy ramifications of some of these proposed techniques, I firmly believe that we must quickly provide Joint Task Force 170 counter-resistance techniques to maximize the value of our intelligence collection mission.’ These techniques eventually migrated from Guantanamo to Afghanistan, and ultimately to Iraq, where the Geneva Conventions clearly applied.”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 55