In this powerful account, he takes us inside the cell blocks and interrogation rooms, face-to-face with the captives. Suicide attempts abound. Storm-trooper-like IRF (initial reaction forces) teams ramp up for beatings of the captives, and even injure one American soldier so badly in a mock drill—a training exercise—that he ends up with brain seizures. Fake interrogations are staged when General Geoffrey Miller—whose later role in the Abu Ghraib fiasco would raise so many questions—hosts visiting VIPs. Barely trained interrogators begin applying their creativity when new, less restrictive rules are issued by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.