Michael E. Dunlavey

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Michael E. Dunlavey
Nationality United States
Occupation General officer, Judge
Known for A camp commandant at Guantanamo

Michael E. Dunlavey was a Major General in the United States Army.[1] Following his retirement from the Army he was elected a State Judge in Erie Pennsylvania.[2][3]

Dunlavey is on record as requesting authorization for interrogators to use controversial interrogation techniques derived from reverse-engineering the SERE training special forces soldiers go through so they can withstand torture, when he was the camp commandant of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[4][5]

Interrogation of Mohammad al-Qahtani, that would later be acknowledged to constituted torture, began under Dunlavey's command.

According to a September 11, 2011, profile in the Erie-Times News, a local paper, Dunlavey has defended the use of these controversial interrogation techniques.[2]

Dunlavey no longer discusses his involvement. In a previous interview with the Erie-Times News, he said that detainees at Guantanamo were "not prisoners of war the way we were trained for, or the (kind the) Geneva Convention envisions." However, he has said he believes the tactics developed for their interrogations were "consistent with the Geneva Convention."

References

  1. Bill Dedman (2006-10-26). "Can the ‘20th hijacker’ of Sept. 11 stand trial?". MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15361462/. Retrieved 2012-09-26. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jim Martin (2011-09-11). "Individuals with Erie ties leave mark on post-9/11 era". Go Erie. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110911/NEWS02/309119946/-1/newssitemap. Retrieved 2012-09-27. "Erie County Judge Michael E. Dunlavey has also faced challenges to his reputation and questions about his judgment as a result of his service. That service began within days of the 2001 terrorist attacks when Dunlavey, a two-star general in the U.S. Army Reserve, was pressed into service to oversee global anti-terrorism operations." 
  3. Pat Howard (2009-01-25). "Roles of 2 Erie soldiers serve as bookends in terrorism debate". Erie-Times News. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090125/OPINION04/301259925. Retrieved 2012-09-27. "Dunlavey, a retired two-star general in the U.S. Army Reserve, was called up in the wake of 9/11. While serving at Guantanamo, he played a role in shaping what Vandeveld encountered years later." 
  4. Douglas A. Pryer (2009). "The fight for the high ground: The U.S. Army and interrogation during Operation Iraqi Freedom I, May 2003 - April 2004". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. pp. 49, 55, 59, 204. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a502354.pdf. Retrieved 2012-09-27. "When finalized, the list of techniques drafted by these two scientists would serve as the basis of an October 11, 2002, memo sent from Major General Dunlavey to his superior, General James Hill, the commander of U.S. Southern Command. In this memo, Dunlavey explicitly requested approval for techniques that derived from "U.S. military interrogation resistance training" (SERE schools). Hill forwarded this documentation on October 25, 2002, to General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for approval."  16x16px Media related to File:The fight for the high ground: The U.S. Army and interrogation during Operation Iraqi Freedom I, May 2003 - April 2004.pdf at Wikimedia Commons
  5. [http://www.defense.gov/news/Jul2005/d20050714report.pdf "Investigation into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Detention Facility"]. Department of Defense. 2005. http://www.defense.gov/news/Jul2005/d20050714report.pdf. Retrieved 2012-09-27. "Interrogation operations at GTMO began in January 2002. Initially interrogators relied upon the interrogation techniques contained in FM 34-52. These techniques were ineffective against detainees who had received interrogation resistance training. On 11 Oct 2002, Major General Michael E. Dunlavey, the Commander of Joint Task Force (JTF) 170, the intelligence task force at GTMO, requested that the CDR USSOUTHCOM, GEN James T. Hill, approve 19 counter resistance techniques that were not specifically listed in FM 34-52."  16x16px Media related to File:Investigation into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Detention Facility.pdf at Wikimedia Commons

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