It began on October 11 , 2002 with a request by J.T.F.-170's commander, Major General Michael Dunlavey, to make interrogations more aggressive.
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General Miller said he came to Iraq last August with a team of about 30 experts to recommend ways of making the detentions and interrogations "more effective and more efficient".
His most overtly political work, Judge on Trial, written in the 1970s during repeated interrogations ("more humiliating than cruel") and house searches, portrayed a judge struggling with his shattered faith in the system.
At the American Psychological Association's annual meeting this week in Boston, prominent members are denouncing such work as unethical by definition, while other key figures — civilian and military — insist that restricting psychologists' roles would only make interrogations more likely to harm detainees.
In June 2015, by a wide bipartisan margin of 78 to 21, Feinstein and John McCain successfully passed an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill prohibiting the CIA from engaging in interrogations more brutal than an army field manual authorized.
Since arriving, General Miller has imposed a number of other changes intended to make the detention and interrogation system more efficient and to make it more acceptable to Iraqis.
Our analogous strategy for investigating etiologic heterogeneity using case control studies where the tissues are available for genomic interrogation is more immediately practical in that larger sample sizes are more readily available.
Interrogation is more likely to be aggressive when no cameras are rolling, but perhaps more problematic is the fact that such techniques often produce false testimony, particularly with juveniles.
Sadly, his contribution to improving interrogation owed more to the detectives' craft than sound empirical science.
