Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research
 
GUANTANAMO:
AMERICA’S BATTLE LAB
 
Professor Mark P. Denbeaux
Director, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy & Research
Professor Jonathan Hafetz
Deputy Director, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy & Research
Joshua Denbeaux
’91
,
 Counsel to two Guantánamo detainees with
Erin Hendrix
‘13
, Chelsea Perdue
‘15
, Kelly Ross
‘13, Lauren Winchester ’12
 Co-Authors & Research Fellows
Sara Ben-David
’12
, Sean Camoni
’11
, Meghan Chrisner-Keefe
’11
, Edward Dabek
’13
, Bahadir Ekiz
’13
, Ryan Gallagher
’14
, Sean Kennedy
’13
, Adam Kirchner
‘15
, Chrystal Loyer
’12
, Eric Miller
’13
, Jordan Emma Mintz
’13
, Kelli Stout
’11
, Nicholas Stratton
’13
, Kelly Ann Taddonio
’13
, Paul Taylor
’11
, Philip Taylor
’12
, Joshua Wirtshafter
’14
 Senior Research Fellows, Seton Hall law School Center for Policy and Research Contributors
Melissa Caparruva
’15
, Alison Frimmel
’15
,
Joseph Fuirita ’15,
 Gregory James
’15
, Alexandra Kutner
’15
, Ashleigh
Lewis’ 15
, Kaitlin Lapi
’
15,
Ghalib Mahmoud ’15,
Tiffany Russo
’15
, Russell Victorio
’15
, Hayden Watkins
’15
, Christopher Whitten
’15
, Haoying Zhu
’15
 
Research Fellows, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research
Joseph Hickman
Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research
 
 
Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research
“I got my marching orders from the President of the United States.”
 
Major General Michael Dunlavey, Commander of JTF-170 (Intelligence Command) at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
 
“ 
The SECDEF said he wanted a product and he wanted intelligence now.  He told me what he wanted; not how to do it . . .
”
Major General Michael Dunlavey, Commander of JTF-170 at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
 
“History is being made with the Interrogations Operations
taking place at Guantanamo Bay . . . . Operationally, it breaks new ground. The Command, [redacted], Analysts, Service and Support elements, and  Military Police are daily being asked
not just to do the jobs they were trained for, but to radically create new methods and methodologies t 
hat
are needed to complete this mission in defense of our nation.”
 
JTF-GTMO Joint Intelligence Group Standard Operating Procedures
 
Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research
The Executive Order now made JTF-
170 “responsible for the
worldwide management of interrogation 
 of suspected terrorists detained in support
of us (sic) military operations . . .” and noted this was “a significant expansion of the current mandate.”
 
Email Regarding Executive Order Defining JTF-
170’s Role
 
“MG Dunlavey and later MG [Geoffrey] Miller 
 referred to GTMO as a
‘Battle Lab’
meaning that interrogations and other procedures that were to some degree experimental and their lessons would benefit DoD in other
 places.”
Colonel Britt Mallow, the Commander of the Army’s Criminal
Investigative Task Force.
 I can understand why a lot of people were scraped up from the battlefield and brought to Gitmo, because we didn't know what we had, but we didn't have any real mechanisms to sort them out. And I think once we started  sorting them out, we'd already stated publicly that we had
‘ 
the worst of the worst.
’ 
 And it was a little hard to go against that and say, well,
maybe some of them aren't quite the worst of the worst,
and 
 some of them are  just the slowest guys off the battlefield 
.
Thomas Berg, Staff Judge Advocate for JTF-160
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