"The lead interrogator at the Division Interrogation Facility had given me specific instructions: I was to deprive the detainee of sleep during my 12-hour shift by opening his cell every hour, forcing him to stand in a corner and stripping him of his clothes. Three years later the tables have turned. It is rare that I sleep through the night without a visit from this man. His memory harasses me as I once harassed him."

Thus wrote Eric Fair in The Washington Post in 2007, regarding his experience as a contract interrogator in Iraq in 2004.

As terrible as his experience was, we now know that even greater abuses against prisoners took place not only in Iraq but at Guantanamo and other places holding prisoners from the "war on terror." These abuses show human beings at their worst.