Who decided which prisoners stayed in Afghanistan, which got released and who went to Cuba?
It was a multi-layered process. I was the first person in that chain and probably the least important. Then, above me, was the warrant officer to whom I answered, and above him was the higher echelon of the fighting intelligence community on the ground. And finally it was all reviewed by a group of people at Camp Doha, in Kuwait. From where did you get the prisoners? They were taken from many places. You had people taken in operations like Tora Bora [in December 2001] and Anaconda [in March 2002]. Some were taken in raids by civilian intelligence, by US Special Forces-types, by the Marine Corps, and finally, by the regular US Army – either the 101st Airborne or the 82nd Airborne. However, most prisoners turned over to us came from the Pakistani authorities. They conducted sweeps along their border region with Afghanistan, the so-called “Badlands”; people who fit a certain profile were sometimes turned over to the US. You make an oblique reference to working with the “Other Government A
