Guantanamo interrogation methods were covertly transferred to Abu Ghraib under Rumsfeld’s command

Evidence

Boykin, however, had other things on his mind. At the height of the scandal, he was also engaged in a covert operation to “gitmoize” the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Boykin had flown to Iraq to meet with the commander of Guantanamo, who had been called to Baghdad to brief military commanders on interrogation techniques. Under Rumsfeld’s command, Cambone introduced these methods—both physical coercion and sexual humiliation—at Abu Ghraib to extract intelligence on the Iraqi insurgence. All of this was carried out secretly within the Defense Department. When news, including photographs, leaked of the tactics being employed, members of the 372nd Military Police Company took the fall. Boykin remained at his post until his retirement in 2007. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 518

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on torture, militarized Christianity, and institutional secrecy; also resonates with the ‘small acts of decorum toward corpses’ reading purpose around institutional cover-ups.