The Washington Post is reporting that in August 2003 Army intelligence officials in Iraq began discussing different types of harsh interrogation techniques that they wished could be permitted in US-run Iraqi jails. In one email Capt. William Ponce asked interrogators to submit wish lists of different types of interrogation techniques that could be used. In the email Ponce wrote “the gloves are coming off.” Techniques submitted included low-voltage electrocution, blows with phone books and the use of dogs and snakes around detainees. Two specific cases of abuse in Iraq occurred soon after including one where a man died.