279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army's internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison -- and make clear that many of those responsible have yet to be held accountable.
Editor's note: On Thursday, the Department of Justice released four memos produced by its Office of Legal Counsel under former President George W. Bush. The so-called "torture" memos provided the Bush administration's legal justification for CIA interrogation methods like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and "insects placed in a confinement box." In 2006, Salon published the most extensive archive of photos and videos capturing detainee abuse at the U.S. Army's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, some of it carried out by CIA agents. It's worth noting that when we did so, the Pentagon claimed we were damaging national security by publishing such inflammatory images -- the same argument former Bush admininistration officials are making about Obama's decision to release the memos this week. Shortly after we published "The Abu Ghraib Files," the Pentagon released much of the same material to the ACLU.
The 10 galleries of photos and videos appear chronologically in the left column, followed by an additional Salon report on prosecutions for abuse and an overview of Pentagon investigations and other resources. The nine essays accompanying the photo galleries were reported and written by Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin. Photo and video captions were compiled by Page Rockwell. Additional research, reporting and writing for "The Abu Ghraib Files" were contributed by Jeanne Carstensen, Mark Follman, Page Rockwell and Tracy Clark-Flory.
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