Michael E. Dunlavey

Michael E. Dunlavey (born 12 December 1945) is a former major general in the United States Army. Following his retirement from the Army he was elected a State Judge in Erie Pennsylvania.

Dunlavey is on record as requesting authorization for interrogators to use controversial interrogation techniques derived from reverse-engineering the SERE training special forces soldiers go through so they can withstand torture, when he was the camp commandant of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. In 2007 Freedom of Information Act requests revealed that Dunlavey told military investigators investigating the use of torture at Guantanamo that his orders came directly from Secretary of Defense Rumseld.

In 2011 Dunlavey sent out an email joke, for which he felt he should apologize the next day.

Dunlavey announced his intention to retire in May 2012, due to health problems. The article compared special veteran's courts to mental health courts.