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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June 30, 2006
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Richard P. Formica
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Statement of a soldier who tested and verified the accuracy of the Vapor Trace 2 System. The soldier then tested a sample of an item taken from a detainee and the subsequent finding of high exposure reading of an explosive (RDX) on a detainee ...
Sworn statement of a soldier who describes the captured of a detainee on 04/04/2004. A Vapor Trace 2 test showed a "high exposure reading of RDX explosive. The soldier also mentions that the detainee was helping the resistance with supplies for ...
Formica Report Annexes 191 through 192: Deleted Page Information Sheet
This sworn statement is from an intake soldier, unidentified here, wherein he gives a brief discussion of medical screening and intake for the 1st Calvary Division Interrogation Facility. The soldier states that "Detainees that have come to us ...
Statement is by an interrogator with the 312th Military Intelligence Battalion, The interrogator states "I have witnessed numerous problems with detainees dropped off. Their paperwork is cryptic in as much as they rarely put the detainee's name ...
Statement of screener at Abu Ghraib with CACI, III Corps 504th Military Intelligence Brigade, 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion. "During the period from around Nov '03 to Jan '04, I recognized that a number of detainees brought to Abu Ghraib ...
Fragmentary Order 801 marking the activation of the Multinational Forces Iraq under command of General Ricardo S Sanchez and Lieutenant General Thomas F Metz. At the handover of power to the Interim Iraqi Govrnment on 06/20/2004, "the dynamic of ...
June 30, 2006
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Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas F. Metz