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 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 Army memo details how to view and detain civilians and other types of detainees found in the theater of operations. The memo stresses that the civilian is to be treated humanely and that deadly force is not authorized unless the soldier is ...
This Army memo from Major general Odierno is to provide guidance for the treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War (EPW), Civilian Internees (CI) and Other Detainees (OD) in the custody of U.S. Forces, and stresses that Commanders at all levels will ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
This is a Court-Martial of Staff Sergeant Peasgood who was accused of and pleaded guilty to mistreating, shocking and hitting three (3) Iraqi detainees with an M34 blasting device and stripped them of their clothing. His punishment is a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Photograph, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
General, Use of electricity, Cramped confinement, Physical assault
Court Martial Records of SPC Megan Ambuhl, who did not participate in abuse of detainees, but pled guilty to Dereliction of Duty for not reporting the activities of MP and MI personnel at Abu Ghraib Prison. She was sentenced to forfeiture of 1/2 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Megan M. Ambuhl
This is the Court-Martial of Specialist Armin J. Cruz of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade. SPC Cruz was charged with two (2) counts of maltreatment of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison and pleaded ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
General, Physical assault
This is the Court-Martial of Specialist Armin J. Cruz of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade. SPC Cruz was charged with two (2) counts of maltreatment of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison and pleaded ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
Physical assault, General
This is the verbatim trial record of First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. of the 615th Military Police Company who was accused of grabbing a detainee by the neck and punching him in the stomach with a closed fist. This occurred on July 30, 2002 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, General
This is the verbatim trial record of First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. of the 615th Military Police Company who was accused of grabbing a detainee by the neck and punching him in the stomach with a closed fist. This occurred on July 30, 2002 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, General