January 2011 Response to Freedom of Information Act Request
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January 2011 Response to Freedom of Information Act Request

January 2011 Response to Freedom of Information Act Request

In this letter, the Army’s associate deputy general counsel writes that the CID “never created an official ‘Detainee Abuse Task Force.'”

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A letter dated January 24, 2011, sent in response to the denial of a Freedom of Information Act request originally filed by The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute in August 2010. In it, the Army’s associate deputy general counsel writes that the CID “never created an official ‘Detainee Abuse Task Force.'”

Detainee Abuse Task Force

Click here to download the PDF of the letter

 

For more, read Joshua E.S. Phillips’s report, Inside the Detainee Abuse Task Force.

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