Gregory Zanetti is an officer in the United States Army

United States Army

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Brigadier General

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 Zanetti is currently the deputy commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo

Joint Task Force Guantanamo

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On August 13, 2008 Zanetti testified at a pre-trial hearing prior to Guantanamo captive Mohammed Jawad's Guantanamo military commission

Guantanamo military commission

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Carol Rosenberg

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, writing in the Miami Herald, quoted Zanetti characterizing Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann

Thomas W. Hartmann

Thomas W. Hartmann is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Air Force Reserve. He has 32 years of criminal, commercial and civil litigation experience. Between 1983 and 1991 he was a prosecutor and defense counsel in the Air Force, including duties as Chief Air Force Prosecutor in...

's approach to charging Guantanamo captives as:

"Spray and pray. Charge everybody. Let's go. Speed, speed, speed."

According to Rosenberg Zanetti described Hartmann's treatment of his subordinates as:

"abusive, bullying and unprofessional . . . pretty much across the board."

Zanetti's Guantanamo hitch ended in January 2009.