These emails are between US government officials who traveled to Baghdad together and were preparing a report on their observations and the allegations of detainee abuse. One of the authors states that there were three (3) "probably true/valid" reports of detainee abuse cases reported to him while he was in country. There is description of the detainee detention facilities and those facilities and certain detainees were in very bad shape, so much so that the facilities had to be closed down and the detainees transferred to other facilities. In addition, he describes the sites as being visited by the ICRC.