This article describes the Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of three detainees in U.S. custody, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. The investigation focused on the role of CIA officers and contract employers in the deaths. As ...
This article describes criminal investigations into detainee deaths and assaults in Iraq and Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. It documents Condoleeza Rice's public "apolog[y] to the Arab world," and Donald ...
Chain of CIA emails organizing a meeting to be held on October 20, 2003 at 11:00 a.m.
This article details "the deaths of at least 10 prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan" and indicates that U.S. officials considered "a possible criminal investigation of a [CIA] officer in the death of one prisoner." It also describes Congressional ...
Press release from the White House affirming the Bush administration's belief in the Geneva Convention, but noting that Taliban detainees are not entitled to POW status and that members of al-Qaeda are not covered by the Convention.
This article describes the government's criminal investigations into the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan following the Abu Ghraib scandal. The report describes ongoing investigations by the CIA's Inspector General and ...
This May 5, 2004 transcript from ABC World News Tonight: ABC TV reports on the CIA's investigation into the death of "Mon Adel Al-Jamadi" and "Abed Amid Mahoush" in Iraq as well as the death of a detainee in Afghanistan. It describes the Abu ...
CIA copy of an "Information Page" by the National Institute of Health on Cerebral Hypoxia, explained as a condition in which there is a decrease of oxygen supply to the brain, as can occur from drowning, strangling, choking, cardiac arrest, or ...
CIA copy of a news transcript for an April 2003 DOD briefing discussing DOD policies on the Geneva Conventions, enemy prisoners of war, and war crimes, especially in the context of the Iraqi conflict. The briefing was presented by Bryan Whitman, ...
This article describes the CIA Inspector General's investigation into the death of three prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. The article names two of the three of the prisoners, Mandadel Al-Jamadi and Abid Hamid Mowhoush.
This article describes inquires by the Army's Criminal Investigation Division and the Pentagon into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
Likely a cover sheet for CIA documents from, or relating to, incidents in 2003.
A redacted March 4, 2004 non-legal memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). This paper "responds to an OSD request" seeking to enumerate the implications of releasing ...
A redacted PowerPoint presentation from the Defense Intelligence Agency's Middle East and South Asia Office. The presentation slides describe the DIA's Insurgency Database and criteria for the inclusion of Iraqi regime leaders and/or insurgents ...
An OLC memo analyzing the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War ("GC"). The memo provides three opinions. Part I concludes that "GC governs the occupation of Iraq." Part II discusses GC's general ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Legal Memo
Jack Goldsmith
Scott Muller
William J. Haynes, II, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alberto R. Gonzales
Legal Memo
Jack Goldsmith
Scott Muller
William J. Haynes, II, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alberto R. Gonzales
This May 24, 2004 Newsweek article discusses the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. It describes legal justifications for the Bush administration's interrogation program.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George W. Bush, Jane Harman, Lindsey Graham, Larry DiRita, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Cofer Black, Colin L. Powell, John C. Yoo, William Howard Taft, IV, Alberto R. Gonzales, Rick Baccus, Richard B. Myers, William J. Haynes, II, Geoffrey D. Miller, Stephen A. Cambone, William G. Boykin, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Paul Wayne Bergrin, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault
Other
George W. Bush, Jane Harman, Lindsey Graham, Larry DiRita, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Cofer Black, Colin L. Powell, John C. Yoo, William Howard Taft, IV, Alberto R. Gonzales, Rick Baccus, Richard B. Myers, William J. Haynes, II, Geoffrey D. Miller, Stephen A. Cambone, William G. Boykin, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Paul Wayne Bergrin, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault
In this letter dated May 6, 2004, Human Rights Watch "calls, first, for the U.S. government to reveal all places of detention where security or terrorist suspects are being held on whatever grounds, and second, for it to permit independent, ...
CIA copy of Associated Press article describing U.S. military efforts to stem the flow of unauthorized individuals and weapons into Iraq from Syria.
This article describes the investigation into the death of an unidentified Iraqi detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison. A photograph of the detainee's body, which the LA Times calls one of "the most indelible images yet made public," ...
CIA copy of a Los Angeles Times article reporting the death of former Iraqi general Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush.
CIA-run LexisNexis search results for "Iraq War News" and "mowhoush." Results include twelve published news articles relating to the death of Iraqi General Abed Hamed Mowhoush while in U.S. custody and under U.S. interrogation.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
L. Paul Bremer
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Hooding/Goggling, Environmental manipulation
Other
L. Paul Bremer
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Hooding/Goggling, Environmental manipulation
CIA copy of London Times article describing an invasion of U.S. troops into three Iraqi towns close to the Syrian border in an effort to flush out foreign Mujahidin fighters.
Partially redacted CIA memo describing a meeting held to discuss the autopsy of Iraqi detainee Manadel al-Jamadi. The document notes that al-Jamadi's right eye was blackened, that there were bruises over both of his temporal regions, that there ...
CIA background materials on Abu Ghraib, likely for presentation to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Table of contents includes "NE Background Summary," "DDO Talking Points and ...
Summary of CIA activities at the Abu Ghraib prison. A handwritten note marks the summary as "D/N Talking Points." Some of the bulleted paragraphs are redacted.