We’ll Call These EITs, 22x30, Oil on canvas, Sandra Koponen © 2015Left to Right: Steven Bradbury, William J. Haynes, Jay Bybee, Robert EatingerDEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEWilliam “Jim” Haynes, DOD, General Counsel May 24, 2001 - Feb. 2008As Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s legal adviser, Haynes facilitated the military’s harsh and abusive interrogation of detainees. Along with other members of the self-styled “War Council” of senior administration lawyers, Haynes strenuously opposed recognizing the rights of detainees under the Geneva Conventions. His office solicited and recommended the use of methods that would “exploit” detainees in U.S. custody from a DOD program established to help U.S. forces withstand torture. He visited Guantanamo in September 2002 with Addington, Gonzales and Haynes and observed interrogations. He also supported the gruesome, 50-plus day interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani. In a November 27, 2002 action memo, he recommended that Rumsfeld approve harsh interrogation techniques despite the meager legal analysis offered in support.Haynes also solicited from the Office of Legal Counsel the torture memo of March 14, 2003, authored by John Yoo. He then insisted that Rumsfeld’s January 2003 working group on interrogations be bound by the flawed analysis contained within Yoo’s torture memo, and overrode the legal and policy objections of top military service lawyers. The working group’s final report was issued without the dissenting military service lawyers’ knowledge, and recommended that Rumsfeld approve numerous abusive interrogation techniques. Like Rumsfeld, Haynes stood by the military’s interrogation policies despite continuously mounting evidence of abuse at the hands of military interrogators.***https://www.aclu.org/infographic/infographic-torture-architects

We’ll Call These EITs, 22x30, Oil on canvas, Sandra Koponen © 2015

Left to Right: Steven Bradbury, William J. Haynes, Jay Bybee, Robert Eatinger

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

William “Jim” Haynes, DOD, General Counsel

May 24, 2001 - Feb. 2008

As Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s legal adviser, Haynes facilitated the military’s harsh and abusive interrogation of detainees. Along with other members of the self-styled “War Council” of senior administration lawyers, Haynes strenuously opposed recognizing the rights of detainees under the Geneva Conventions. His office solicited and recommended the use of methods that would “exploit” detainees in U.S. custody from a DOD program established to help U.S. forces withstand torture. He visited Guantanamo in September 2002 with Addington, Gonzales and Haynes and observed interrogations. He also supported the gruesome, 50-plus day interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani. In a November 27, 2002 action memo, he recommended that Rumsfeld approve harsh interrogation techniques despite the meager legal analysis offered in support.

Haynes also solicited from the Office of Legal Counsel the torture memo of March 14, 2003, authored by John Yoo. He then insisted that Rumsfeld’s January 2003 working group on interrogations be bound by the flawed analysis contained within Yoo’s torture memo, and overrode the legal and policy objections of top military service lawyers. The working group’s final report was issued without the dissenting military service lawyers’ knowledge, and recommended that Rumsfeld approve numerous abusive interrogation techniques. Like Rumsfeld, Haynes stood by the military’s interrogation policies despite continuously mounting evidence of abuse at the hands of military interrogators.*

**https://www.aclu.org/infographic/infographic-torture-architects