Where she is now: Fort Huachuca, Ariz., assigned to the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion. Reported involvement: Wood rewrote the interrogation policy at Abu Ghraib, adding to it nine techniques not included in the Army field manuals. According to the Fay-Jones report those techniques included the "use of dogs, sleep management, [and] stress positions." On May 19, 2005, the ACLU made public Wood's sworn statement to the Fay-Jones investigators, which was declassified and released by the Army in response to the ACLU's FOIA requests. Wood's name is redacted, but identifying data such as her rank, current unit, and past assignments make clear her identity. "We had used 'sleep adjustment' and 'stress positions' as effective techniques in Afghanistan," her statement reads. "I perceived the Iraq experience to be evolving into the same operational environment as Afghanistan. I used my best judgment and concluded they would be effective tools for interrogation operations at AG." Wood then reports that she "plagiarized" for use at Abu Ghraib the interrogation policy used by the secretive Task Force 121, an ad hoc organization of special operations units in Iraq. Lawyers she consulted told her the new policy was "within legal purview and authority," and her commanders also vetted and approved it. When she met with Miller and his team from Guantanamo during their Sept. 2003 visit to Abu Ghraib, she says that someone from the team called her policy a "good start" but suggested that Abu Ghraib should consider using other techniques approved for use in Guantanamo. |