Donald J. Ryder

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Donald J. Ryder

Donald J. Ryder was a major general in the US Army and served as a military attorney until his 2006 retirement. He was from October 29, 2003 to July 14, 2006 the Provost Marshal General (German about general of the military police force) and thus commander of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command .

Military career

Ryder enlisted in the US Army in 1971. In 2001 he was promoted to major general. On October 29, Ryder was appointed Provost Marshal General . This position was reintroduced after 29 years and subordinated to the Army headquarters as a staff position. This post already existed from 1941 to 1974.

During the 2003 Iraq war , he led an investigation into allegations of torture in Abu Ghuraib prison . The associated final report was later the basis of the Taguba report .

Some recommendations in Ryder's report directly contradicted those of Major General Geoffrey D. Miller , the former commander of the detention center in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba . For example, Ryder recommended that the military police's duties as prison guards should be strictly separated from those of military intelligence for interrogation. In contrast, Geoffrey Miller had recommended that these duties be more closely linked so that guards could "prepare" prisoners for interrogation.

The reaction of then US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the publication of the investigation reports was to ignore the recommendations of Ryder and Antonio M. Taguba and even, in contrast, to put Geoffrey Miller in command of the Iraqi prisons.

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of Military Awards :

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  1. ↑ Appendix 19 to the Taguba Report (findlaw.com; English)
  2. ↑ As Insurgency Grew, So Did Prison Abuse: Needing Intelligence, US Pressed Detainees ( Washington Post, May 30, 2004; English)
  3. ↑ Appendix 20 of the Taguba Report (findlaw.com; English)
personal data
SURNAME Ryder, Donald J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American major general in the United States Army
DATE OF BIRTH before 1971