Randall Mark Schmidt was a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. Schmidt was appointed to conduct an inquiry into FBI reports that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were being subjected to inhumane interrogation. The unclassified summary of Schmidt's report acknowledges that one high value detainee was subjected to almost continuous interrogation, for 18 to 20 hours per day, for almost two months. It describes the long term effect of this interrogation as "degrading and abusive", but that it did not rise to the level of "inhumane". Schmidt retired September 1, 2006.