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These emails are a follow-up to a task request to provide information on military detainee units deployed to Afghanistan in 2002.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
These emails between Army Officers concerns the detention operations and is mostly redacted except for a few comments such as "Please pass to the trainers. Enclosed is MG Miller, Detention OPS recommendation to the training program.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
This document is a series of emails between Army Officers concerning manditory training for Detainee Operations with attachments (not included) and includes the latest guidance from in theater to include the MG Miller.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
This Army memo is to detail detainee handling and pre-deployment training requirements for the Iraqi Theater of Operations.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
This Court Martial record (volume 7 of 8) discusses the court martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick, II, who was charged for offenses he committed while assigned to the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility on or about November 08, ...
This Court Martial record (volume 8 of 8) discusses the court martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick, II, who was charged for offenses he committed while assigned to the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility on or about November 08, ...

Email attaching an Assessment of the Biometric Automated Toolset software system used throughout the detention procedure at Abu Ghraib. Report claims it is functioning at 75%.

May 16, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Summary of comments made through media outlets by General Peter Schoomaker, General George Casey, Major General Geoffrey Miller, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, President George Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, General Peter Pace, ...
Department of Defense talking points on Abu Ghraib detainee abuse which highlight how abuse is fundamentally against American military standards, how the majority of U.S. soldiers conduct themselves honorably, and how the abuse will be ...