Interview of a civilian contractor with the Titan Corp. assigned to Abu Ghraib prison as an interrogator. The gentleman recalls several incidents of detainees being inappropriately treated before, during and after interrogations. He specifically ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Sworn statement of a Sergeant First Class (SFC) who arrived to Abu Ghraib prison in December 2003. The SFC recalled seeing a sign regarding the stripping down of a detainee and his cell for security purposes. The SFC inquired and the orders were ...
Interviewee (position and date of assignment is unknown) identified [redacted] officials in photographs.
Interviewee (title and length of assignment in AG unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement identified individuals involved in detainee abuse.
Interviewee (title and length of assignment at AG unknown).
In their sworn statement the interviewee identified individuals involved in alleged detainee abuse at AG.
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee reviewed several photographs of the alleged detainee abuse; identified several individuals.
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Stated that he/she reviewed several photos of detainee abuse. Identified an individual(s) in the photo(s).
[document redacted].
Interviewee was a detainee at AG on or around December 2003.
The detainee stated that "[w]hen I arrived, I was handcuffed and had a sandbag over my head." The detainee continued, "the treatment at Abu Ghraib was not bad and I was never hit in ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
This is an article published in the Agence France-Presse concerning the release from Guantanamo of twenty-three (23) Afghanis back to Afghanistan and their journey back to their homes.
Navy NCIS Middle East Field Office announces temporary deployment of special agents from Bahrain to Iraq because "case load is exploding, high visibility cases are on the rise." A later email attaches the latest case control summary for open Team ...
This is a List/Chart of fifteen (15) pending cases for NCIS Team Iraq as of June 14, 2004.
"Techniques as sleep deprivation were a common thing. Sleep management was part of the extended IROE.. Of CACI interrogator: "he told me, ' I have been doing this for 20 years and I do not need a 20 yr old telling me how to do my job'. . . . ...
Autopy no: ME04-434; Fawaz Badaa Najem, a 42 year old male Iraqi civilian, was in US custody at Abu Ghraib. Be began making gasping sounds which awoke another detainee. The decedent was found to be unresponsive and pulseless. Resuscitation ...
This is an Article 15 proceeding against a Military Police soldier verbally harassed a detainee and splashed a detainee in the face with Pine Oil. The proceeding found the allegations were substantiated and that the responses of the ...
Email refers to four attachments.
[Documents/attachments are not included].
This email exchange is a follow-up and continuation of an email series concerning a Joint Publication on Detainee Operations and includes a daily briefing for June 14, 2004. Attachments not provided.
Email contains notes from a June 14, 2004 meeting.
[Contents redacted].
Email refers to five attachments.
[Documents/attachments not included].
Major requests follow-up information about interrogations, specifically solders' statements saying that [redacted] sometimes removed detainees from the holding facility for brief periods of time (5 minutes to an hour) for questioning. Major ...
Refers to CRM comments/DoD Letter on Detainee Amendments to DoD Auth Bill (S 2004). States, "We have no comments" regarding the CRM review of the DoD draft letter.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Michelle Morales
Julie Samuels | Patrick Rowan | David Nahmias | Eli Rosenbaum | Deborah Rhodes | Adrien Silas
Michelle Morales, Adrien Silas
Michelle Morales
Julie Samuels | Patrick Rowan | David Nahmias | Eli Rosenbaum | Deborah Rhodes | Adrien Silas
Michelle Morales, Adrien Silas
Letter from Michael Posner, the Executive Director of Human Rights First to Attorney General John Ashcroft. The letter requests information on the investigation of those who reportedly committed acts of torture to hold them legally responsible ...
State Department cable concerning several press reports focusing on the situation in Iraq and Saudi Araiba. International media attention focused on human rights issues, specifically Abu Graib and the killing of civilians in U.S. air strikes and ...
Letter from William F. Schultz, Executive Director, Amnesty International to U.S. President George W. Bush re: Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Emails concerning press guidance regarding the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and their February 2004 report.
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing the death of Khan Achmed, a detainee who died from TB, pneumonia and kidney failure at Bagram Detention Facility, Afghanistan. Thomas W. O'Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for ...
Apr. 29, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Thomas W. O'Connell
Douglas J. Feith
Douglas J. Feith, Thomas W. O'Connell
Khan Achmed
Non-legal Memo
Thomas W. O'Connell
Douglas J. Feith
Douglas J. Feith, Thomas W. O'Connell
Khan Achmed
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
The document is an internal Department of Defense email, regarding a lack of protected communication that is hindering the process of true assessment at the BIAP facility.
The document is an internal FBI email sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding possible topics for an AG meeting with a redacted entity, including prisoner abuse cases and legal advice about the treatment of detainees.
This memo summarizes a debriefing of a DIA officer who was in Iraq conducting counter-intelligence operations and detainee interrogations. The DIA officer participated in the interrogation of a suspected bomb maker. He stated that the detainee ...
Sworn statement from a 97B Counterintelligence Agent.
Witnessed use of dogs in interrogations; thought it was approved by Pappas. Does not recall abuse, but does remember an occasion where the line of questioning was not smooth.
Recalled the ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity
Sworn statement by a CACI Contractor who was a Translator at Abu Ghraib Prison from December 8, 2003 through the making of this statement on June 15, 2004. He stated: "Detainees also talk about bad treatment from Iraqis and Coalition forces at ...
This is a sworn statement by a civilian contractor, screener assigned to Abu Ghraib prison in December 2003. He stated that he made a statement in reference to an incident involving a family of Iraqi civilians, a sister and two (2) brothers, one ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee was assigned to AG from August 2003 to February 13, 2004 as a Human Intelligence Collector (97E) with the 519th Military Intelligence Brigade.
In his/her sworn statement, the interviewees stated that in "Nov. 03, I conducted an ...
Suggests briefing the TSG on the findings of an upcoming report DAIG Detainee Operations Inspection Report.
Medical report of a 27-year-old Iraqi male concerning his medical treatment following an allegation that a U.S. soldier repeatedly punched him in the stomach and that Kurds kicked him in the legs during interrogation in custody at the Baghdad ...
Detainee claimed that while he was being captured in Altlafia by U.S. forces soldiers hit him in the stomach, nose and mouth area with their fists. The doctor who saw the detainee on June 15, 2004 stated that he did have any bruising. The ...
Email refers to an attached document, which will be used in briefing Major General Donald J. Ryder on issues the Office of the Provost Marshall General and the Army have.
[Contents of attachment redacted].
Email discusses six hot button issues [redacted] found in a Captain's report that is written in response to Major General Antonio Taguba's report. Also, the Captain's report comments on omissions made by MG Taguba in his report, omissions the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Other
Donald J. Ryder
Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Other
Email refers to an attached executive summary, which discusses disciplinary procedures employed during Operation Iraqi Freedom versus those used in U.S. correction facilities.
[Contents redacted].
Emails reference two attachments, one entitled "Detainee Investigations Summary 20 Jun 04.ppt"
[Documents/attachments not included].
Original email refers to a document entitled "Traditional responsibilities of Military Police in detainee operations... ." The document is described as a background paper to be released to CNN, it lists the doctrinal responsibilities of the ...
Email refers to an attached document described as a 190-8 Interim Guidance.
[Document not included].
Email includes an attached executive summary that compares disciplinary methods advised under the Geneva Convention versus disciplinary methods advised and employed by the US Military. Under the Geneva Convention, enemy prisoners of war ...
Email provides an update from a previous meeting, the author mentions that Private First Class England will go before the Courts Marshal on June 22 and that some changes have been implemented at the Bagram facility. Also, the author mentions that ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
James R. Schlesinger, Donald J. Ryder, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern
Donald J. Ryder
James R. Schlesinger, Donald J. Ryder, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern
Email contains notes from a June 14, 2004 meeting. [Contents redacted].
References documents that outline minimum standard of living for detainees, including the Geneva Conventions, Army Regulations, and Army Field Manual. Notes that Army Regulations do not address "temporary holding facilities of a capturing unit," ...
Sworn statement. Contents entirely redacted.