MAJOR GENERAL ANTONIO M. TAGUBA, US Army, CF

12345678910111213141516171819one being at GITMO, that they were relying on your command presence,your command skills, your skill set so to speak, to give them thatsince the command is in dire straits of building infrastructure todetain and maintain a huge amount of civilian internees, or maybeeven EPW’s, or all those other detainees. Did you fell overwhelmedat that time?A. No, sir. I didn’t feel overwhelmed, but I knew that theywere taking their instructions from Colonel Spain.Q. Okay. Who’s Colonel Spain?A. He was the 18 th MP Brigade Commander.Q. Okay.A. And he told me in July, “He didn’t want anything to do withconfinement operations. As a matter of fact it was time for the 18 thMP Brigade to leave because the 800 th and the 220 th was here and wecould take over since we were Reserve and National Guard. We couldtake over all police operations so they could come back in February.”And I said, “Colonel Spain, it’s the come back part that concerns me,because we can’t do the confinement mission and your mission.” Andhe said, “How’s school?” And that was at the MP Summit. So, he had20the weigh in. He’s the Corp. He was the 5 thCorp Provost Marshal,212223and he had the weigh in. And I told Lane McCotter and Bill Irvinedown at CPA, and I told judge Campbell, because they kept firing offthis you know, “We found another facility, we found another39