US reports on prisoner abuse after 9/11

(The US reports cited in section 1 are in ascending date order so that the unfolding picture from 2003 to 2010 may be followed; the NGO and other reports cited in sections 2 and 3 are in descending date order from 2010. A given report may be found at more than one site on the internet.)

a Miller report: “Assessment of DOD Counter-Terrorism Interrogation and Detention Operations in Iraq,” September 2003

The report was prepared by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller in September 2003 as part of his assessment of the Abu Ghraib detention facility. The report recommends the adoption of harsh practices employed at Guantánamo Bay, where Miller was then the commander, as a model for personnel in Iraq. The key to his approach was the integration of MP with MI, so that MP could soften up prisoners for interrogation. Detainees at Guantánamo had been designated “illegal enemy combatants” to whom the 1949 Geneva Conventions supposedly did not apply. The Bush Administration acknowledged that the 1949 Geneva Conventions applied to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Yet Miller recommended Gitmo's harsh approach in Iraq.