According to the Independent Panel to Review DOD (Department of Defense) Detention Operations’ report on August 24, 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld’s ‘augmented [interrogation] techniques for Guantanamo migrated to Afghanistan and Iraq where they were neither limited nor safeguarded,’ that ‘the chain of command ignored reports’ of abuse, and that ‘[m]ore than once a commander was complicit.’ ”
– Jordan J. Paust, Beyond the Law, Page 17