"I've no training on the military side of what constitutes interrogation operations," Colonel Jordan, an Army reservist, told General Taguba.

While some American officers have complained that the abuse scandal has thrown an unwanted spotlight on military detention and interrogation operations, Navy officials said the charges announced Friday were appropriate.

"There was nothing that prepared us for running an interrogation operation" like the one at Bagram, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the interrogators, Staff Sgt. Steven W. Loring, later told investigators.

Leaders in key positions failed properly to supervise the interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib and failed to understand the dynamics created at Abu Ghraib.

Many interrogators and personnel overseeing interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib had prior exposure to or experience in GTMO or Afghanistan.

The C.I.A. conducted unilateral and joint interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib.

MKDELTA, and its associated program MKULTRA, were mind control and interrogation operations run by the Central Intelligence Agency.

His account of these interrogation operations, which did not employ torture, brutality, or any of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that became famous/infamous during the post-9-11 period, can be found in a major address Herrington delivered in 2009.

The next room was the nerve center of the interrogation operation.

He was a military intelligence officer early in his career, but had no experience in interrogation operations and had been a civil affairs officer since 1993.