After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

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This Department of the Army Inspector General report is the result of the Acting Secretary of the Army's February 10, 2004 directive to conduct an assessment of the Army's detainee and interrogation operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The aim ...
Oversight Report
EIT
Questions to Hon. Les Brownlee, Acting Secretary of the Army and Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Chief of Staff of the Army from Senators Carl Levin and Bill Nelson. Questions focus on detainees' right to communicate with the International Committee ...
This is a DOD OIG review of 13 senior-level investigations of detention and interrogation that were initiated as a result of allegations of detainee abuse made in 2004. The purpose of the OIG review "was to evaluate the reports to determine ...
Report from the Office of Inspector General on Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities from September 2001-October 2003, specifically focusing on the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs). In a previously released ...
This report, issued by John Helgerson, examines whether CIA interrogators used unauthorized interrogation techniques on high value detainees, including Abd al-Rahman Al-Nashiri.
Non-legal Memo, Oversight Report, Investigative File
John Helgerson
John Helgerson, James Pavitt
Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Threat, Sleep deprivation
This document is a CIA Report of Investigation regarding the rendition and detention of German citizen Khalid Al-Masri. The report concludes that there was an "insufficient basis to render and detain" Al-Masri, his prolonged detention was ...
Oversight Report
John L. Helgerson
Khalid Al-Masri
Physical assault
This report details the investigation into the death of Gul Rahman.
Report from the Office of Inspector General on Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities from September 2001-October 2003, specifically focusing on the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs).
This report details the investigation into the death of Gul Rahman. This re-released report includes a description of psychologist Bruce Jessen and his role in the interrogation of Gul Rahman.