Oral history interview with Brittain Mallow, 2011.

Biographical Note

Commander, Criminal Investigation Task Force.

Scope and Contents

Born: 1956, Japan ; Education: B.S., Virginia Tech; M.A., Naval Postgraduate School; M.A., National Defense University; Career: Officer, Middle East foreign area specialist, Military Police, U.S. Army; Deputy Commander, Army Criminal Investigation Command [CID]; Commander, Criminal Investigations Task Force [CITF]; Reminiscences: Personal experience on September 11; selection of Guantánamo Bay as a detention site; condition of detention centers in Kandahar and Bagram; intelligence community's use of enhanced interrogation techniques; use of SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape] program techniques in Guantánamo interrogations; reports of abusive treatment going up Army chain of command; personal reaction to Abu Ghraib; Discussions: Military response to September 11; military screening and selection process of Guantánamo Bay detainees; intelligence gathering and detention operations; military commissions; CITF and FBI evidence gathering for detainee prosecution; application of Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo Bay; challenges of keeping open/closing Guantánamo Bay.

Subjects

• Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
• Detention of persons--Government policy--United States.
• Farber, Myron, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Geneva Conventions (1949 August 12). Protocols, etc. (1977 June 10)
• Guantánamo Bay oral history project.
• Habeas corpus--United States.
• Interviews.
• Mallow, Brittain, 1956---Interviews.
• Military interrogation.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prisoners of war--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Rule of law--United States.
• Torture--Government policy--United States.
• Unlawful combatants--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

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