In response to the Justice Department’s stonewalling of an ACLU Freedom of Information request filed eight months ago, the ACLU and our allies filed another FOIA lawsuit June 2, demanding the release of information about detainees held at military bases and other facilities overseas.

The abuse of Iraqi prisoners may have been system-wide and not limited to a single prison or American military unit. Even more disturbing, it appears senior officials either approved of the abuse or ignored it. In shocking testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 9, Attorney General John Ashcroft refused to provide Justice Department memos written in 2002 that may have established the legal groundwork for abuses that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere.

Visit the ACLU’s timeline which dramatically demonstrates events relevant to the mistreatment of detainees held in United States custody abroad...

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