{"id":1118,"date":"2015-03-03T04:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2015-03-04T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:58:07","slug":"ghost-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/ghost-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost detainee is a term used in the executive branch of the United States government to designate a person held in a detention center, whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous. Such uses arose as the Bush administration initiated the war on terror following the 9\/11 attacks of 2001 in the United States.<\/p>\n

As documented in the 2004 Taguba Report<\/a>, it was used in the same manner by United States (US) officials and contractors of the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC) at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003-2004.<\/p>\n

I filed a FOIA to the Department of Defense on June 17, 2004, and did not receive a response for more than 7 years. In this response, they informed me that in the case\u00a0Amnesty International et al v. CIA et al, documents were being released.<\/p>\n

The below are all that I know of, which the DOD released to the public.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0FOIA Request Response, dated September 30, 2011 w\/ Ghost Detainee records<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0June 9, 2009 Release 4:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ghost Detainee Release 4<\/a>\u00a0 [ 1,192 Pages, 127MB ]<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0April 29, 2009 Release 3:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ghost Detainee Release 3<\/a>\u00a0 [ 671 Pages, 46MB ]<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0April 2009 Release:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ghost Detainee Release 2<\/a>\u00a0 [ 1,082 Pages, 221MB ]<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0March 2009 Release:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ghost Detainee Release<\/a>\u00a0 [ 1,322 Pages, 181MB ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghost detainee is a term used in the executive branch of the United States government to designate a person held in a detention center, whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous. Such uses arose as the Bush administration initiated the war on terror following the 9\/11 attacks of 2001 in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[551,323,531],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-military-defense","category-terrorism","tag-ghost-detainees","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t