In a declaration on March 24, 2010, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson claimed many Guantanamo detainees were not enemy combatants. He said: ” ‘…by late August 2002, I found that of the initial 742 detainees that had arrived at Guantanamo, the majority of them had never seen a U.S. soldier in the process of their initial detention and their captivity had not been subjected to any meaningful review. A separate but related problem was that often absolutely no evidence relating to the detainee was turned over, so there was no real method of knowing why the prisoner had been detained in the first place.’ ”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 273