So it appears from the Senate Armed Services Committee report that in 2002, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was rather interested in
“„As the various Working Group drafts were being discussed, JTF-GTMO [Joint Task Force-Guantanamo] and SOUTHCOM pressed for authority to use additional interrogation techniques at GTMO. On February 12, 2003, in advance of a planned briefing by MG Miller [Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the Guantanamo task force commander] to Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz, LTC Beaver [Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a legal adviser at Guantanamo] sent an email to the Department of Defense’s Associate Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs Eliana Davidson stating that “we must have interrogation technique approval immediately and we will speak to Mr. Wolfowitz about this. The hallmark is isolation and up to 20 hour interrogation. Without that we can’t be successful in the community environment. We need commitment from the senior leadership to let us do this mission.”