And it’s still unclear to me what the status of the Iraqis that we had were. Well, I know that they weren’t being afforded the legal status of enemy prisoners of war. But supposedly, we were treating them as though they were, but we weren’t. I mean, there’s just no way that what we were doing and what was sanctioned by the Pentagon through the IRE, the interrogation rules of engagement — there’s no way that fit in within the Geneva Conventions. …

Spc. Tony Lagouranis (Ret.) was a U.S. Army interrogator from 2001 to 2005, and served a tour of duty in Iraq from January 2004 to January 2005. He was first stationed at Abu Ghraib; in the spring he joined a special intelligence gathering task force that moved among detention facilities around the country.

Read an interview with him here.

Make sure you read the comments section. Enlightening.

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