Abu Ghraib Dog Tactics Came From Guantanamo: Further Links Procedures at 2 Facilities [... or low level soldiers invent the same torture techniques?!]

Abu Ghraib Dog Tactics Came From Guantanamo: "Testimony Further Links Procedures at 2 Facilities | By Josh White | Washington Post Staff Writer | Wednesday, July 27, 2005; Page A14

Military interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq learned about the use of military working dogs to intimidate detainees from a team of interrogators dispatched from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court testimony yesterday.

One interrogation analyst also testified that sleep deprivation and forced nudity -- which were used in Cuba on high-value detainees -- later were approved tactics at Abu Ghraib. Another soldier said that interrogators would regularly pass instructions to have dog handlers and military police 'scare up' detainees as part of interrogation plans, part of an approved approach that relied on exploiting the fear of dogs.
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"We have taken the legal and moral 'high-road' in the conduct of our military operations regardless of how others may operate," Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack L. Rives wrote in a Feb. 5, 2003, memo. "We need to consider the overall impact of approving extreme interrogation techniques as giving official approval and legal sanction to the application of interrogation techniques that U.S. forces have consistently been trained are unlawful."