Antonio Taguba Antonio Mario Taguba ( born October 31 , 1950 ) , is a retired major general in the United States Army . He was the second American citizen of Philippine birth to be promoted to general officer rank in the Army . Taguba is best known for authoring the Taguba Report , an internal U . S . Army report on abuse of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq ; the report was published , then leaked , in 2004 . Taguba again made national headlines in June , 2008 , when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crime s , in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in American military prison s . Early life . Taguba was born in Sampaloc , Manila , the Philippines , the city to which his family had moved from their home province of Cagayan . His father was a soldier in the 45th Infantry Regiment , Philippine Division ( Philippine Scouts ) , who fought in the Battle of Bataan ( January – April , 1942 ) during World War II and after capture by the Japanese survived the Bataan Death March . Taguba was raised by his mother and grandmother . When he was eleven years old , his family moved to Hawaii , U . S . . Education . Taguba graduated from Leilehua High School in Wahiawa , Hawaii , in 1968 . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Idaho State University in 1972 , and graduated from the Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Course , the Army Command and General Staff College , the College of Naval Command and Staff , and the Army War College . In addition , Taguba holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Webster University , a Master of Arts degree in international relations from Salve Regina College , and a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College . Military career . Taguba was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1972 . He served in TongDuChun , Republic of Korea less than ten miles from North Korea in the Combat Support Company as the Mortar Platoon Leader in 1974 - 1975 of the 1st Battalion 72d Armor , 2nd Infantry Division , I Corp , Eighth Army . At Fort Sill , Oklahoma , Taguba commanded the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery , Staff and Faculty Battalion , Field Artillery School / Center . He then served for three years in Germany , commanding a tank company in a mechanized infantry division at Mainz ( Company B , 4th Battalion , 69th Armored Regiment ) . Back in Korea , Taguba commanded the 1st Battalion , 72nd Armored Regiment , 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Casey ; and was the executive officer of the Republic of Korea - U . S . Combined Forces Command in Yongsan . At the Pentagon he served as a Material System Analyst , Office of the Chief of Staff , Army . At Fort Hood , Texas , he commanded the " St . Lo , " 2nd Brigade , 2nd Armored Division ; when the brigade was transferred to the 4th Infantry Division , Colonel Taguba assumed command of the " Warhorse , " 2nd Brigade , 4th Infantry Division from June 1995 until he ended command in June 1997 . At Fort McPherson , Georgia , Taguba was chief of staff of the United States Army Reserve Command ( USARC ) . At Fort Jackson , South Carolina , he was assistant divisional commander - forward of the 24th Infantry Division ( Mechanized ) and Deputy Commanding General ( South ) , First U . S . Army . At Alexandria , Virginia , Colonel Taguba was promoted to brigadier general and given command of the United States Army Community and Family Support Center . Major General Taguba served for ten months as deputy commanding general for support of the Third United States Army , U . S . Army Forces Central Command , Coalition Forces Land Component Command ( CFLCC ) , based in Kuwait . Earlier , he was at the Pentagon as acting director of the Army Staff , Headquarters , Department of the Army , under General Eric K . Shinseki . In 2004 , Taguba was assigned to report on abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq . In May of that year , he published an extremely critical report that was leaked to the public . Later that month , Major General Taguba was reassigned to the Pentagon to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for readiness , training and mobilization in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs . Describing his thoughts upon being informed by John Abizaid a few weeks after the leak that he and his report would be investigated , Taguba said " I ’ d been in the Army thirty - two years by then , and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia . " In January 2006 , General Richard A . Cody , the Army ' s Vice - Chief of Staff , instructed Taguba to retire by the following January . No official explanation was given ; Taguba himself believes his forced retirement was ordered by civilian Pentagon officials in retaliation for his report on abuse of prisoners . Taguba ' s retirement , effective January 1 , 2007 , ended a 34 - year career of military service . Work on prisoner abuse . In 2004 , Taguba was assigned to head an investigation into accusations of prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq . Taguba became known worldwide when the Taguba Report , a classified , internal U . S . Army report on the investigation , was leaked to the public and published to national attention . The report was extremely critical of U . S . Army conduct and found widespread negligence and abuse . In June , 2008 , Taguba was again in the headlines when he wrote the preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib prison , in Guantanamo Bay , and in Afghanistan . In it , he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes and called for the prosecution of those responsible . He wrote , " There is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes . The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account . "