American Civil Liberties Union

May 2006  
Army Documents Show Senior Official Reportedly Pushed Limits on Detainee Interrogations New Evidence that Government Knew Abuse was Widespread Before Abu Ghraib Photos (5/2/2006)
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February 2006  
Further Evidence Senior Officials Approved Abuse of Prisoners FBI memo details Guantánamo commander’s repeated refusal to abandon illegal and ineffective interrogation techniques (2/23/2006)
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January 2006  
Documents show that the Army received reports of detainee abuse as early as January 2002. (1/12/2006)
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November 2005  
Documents released by the Department of Justice Executive Office of US Attorneys (11/9)
 

October 2005  
Autopsies and Death reports reveal deaths of detainees in U.S. custody (10/24)
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September 2005  
Army documents show systemic failures in treatment of detainees; contradict report of Inspector General Mikolashek (9/15)
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August 2005  
Government Ordered to Reveal Hidden Text of Legal Documents (8/16)
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Legal Papers Unsealed in ACLU Quest for Torture Images (8/11)
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July 2005  
Department of Defense attempts to suppress photos (7/29)
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Dept of Defense documents show abuse. Use of "Fear Up Harsh" technique at Guantánamo. Interrogator sexually humiliates a detainee. Soldiers told not to bring up abuses to the Chain of Command. (7/22)
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June 2005  
Army documents including medical files and Court Martial records related to abuse of detainees at Camp Bucca (6/30)
 
  Dept of Defense documents: "Substantiated Cases of Abuse" at Guantánamo. Official inquiries into abuse of detainees. (6/24)
 

May 2005  
FBI Records: Reprocessed Documents (5/26) Department of Defense personnel impersonated State Department officials in interrogations
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FBI documents: Prisoners told FBI of Qur'an desecration in 2002. Beatings and sexual assault; planned suicides; hunger strikes.
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Army documents (5/18 ) U.S. soldier instructed detainee to dig own grave.
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  Department of Defense (5/6) Soldier's manuals, medical records
 
April 2005  
Army Investigative Files. Soldier had photo of himself pointing a pistol at a detainee laying down with hands tied and head covered. Reports of soldiers abusing detainees. (4/21)
 
Defense Intelligence Agency Conversations corroborating The Washington Post's description that senior leadership knew of incidents of abuse at the prison. Bush 2002 memo: Geneva Conventions do not apply to conflict with al Qaeda. Lack of guidelines for interrogation techniques. (4/20)
 
Dept of Defense documents. Autopsy reports of detainee deaths ruled to be homicides. Military Intelligence Captain asks interrogators for their "wish list" of techniques not currently authorized. Report describes a mock execution of a teenage Iraqi boy. Two Iraqis "brutally beaten" by U.S. soldiers. Soldiers say command climate encouraged abuses. (4/19)
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Dept of Defense documents. Gen. Paul Kern testifies that senior lever officers bore responsibility for Abu Ghraib. Court martial records of Megan Ambuhl, Armin Cruz, Glenn Niles, Jeremy Sivits. (4/14)
 
March 2005  
October Sanchez Memo (3/29) Interrogation by dogs, sensory deprivation approved by Lt. Gen. Sanchez.
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September Sanchez Memo (3/29) Interrogation by dogs, sensory deprivation approved by Lt. Gen. Sanchez.
   
Army documents. Severe beating of a high school student. Death of Abu Malik Kenami after being abused. "Bulldog 6" tells soldiers to "take the detainee[s] out back and beat the fuck out of them." Perceptions of chain of command endorsement of "pay-back." (3/25)
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Annexes to Fay/Jones/Kern report. Military and CIA agree on "ghost detainees." Most detainees are innocent or "of no intelligence value." Gen. Karpinski testifies that she visited Abu Ghraib regularly and that it housed juvenile, including one who "looked like he was 8-years old." Abuses at Adamiya Palace. OGA packed dead detainee in ice and put him in a taxi. Instances of brutal abuse. (3/9)
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Description of "Ramadi Madness" video. Shootings at Iraqi checkpoints. Task Force 6-26 approves harsh interrogation techniques.
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February-January 2005  
Dept of Documents. Detainee forced to drop abuse charges or be detained indefinitely. U.S. Soldiers Posed in Photos of Mock Executions of Detainees; More Cases of Abuse Revealed. (2/18)
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Army CID documents: Chain of command told of abuses and did nothing. Special Forces, TF 6-26, TF 20, Implicated in Abuse. Electric shocks, forced sodomy and severe physical beatings were used. (1/24)
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FBI e-mails: Guantánamo abuse investigations thwarted. McCraw inquiry. (1/5)

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2004  
Army documents: Army commander interference into investigations of abuse. Death of Abdureda Lafta Abdul Kareem. Mock executions. (12/21)
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DoD interrogators impersonated FBI agents when torturing detainees at Guantánamo. Reference to Presidential Order authorizing abuse. FBI concerned about cover-up of abuses. (12/20)
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Navy Documents: Marines Engaged in Mock Executions of Iraqi Juveniles. Pressure "to keep one's mouth shut." (12/14)
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Special Ops, Task Force 6-26 threaten government agents who spoke about abuse in Iraq. FBI agents witness abuse. (12/7)
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Annexes to Taguba Report on Abu Ghraib. (10/19)
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Office of Information and Privacy, Defense Department, Army and FBI. The Ryder Report. (10/15)
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