Stephen Cambone - Definition and Overview

Stephen A. Cambone (born 1951) is the United States Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post created in March 2003, and of which he was the first occupant. He is said to be very close to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and, as the Pentagon's top man in intelligence matters, has been directly involved in the organization of the military intelligence-gathering program that allegedly led to the prisoner abuses in the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

He first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he contradicted the General's statements about the impropriety of putting military guards under the command of intelligence personnel and interrogators.