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=== Emerging Details ===
'''Restricted Access'''
*Edward T. Pound, [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040607/usnews/7prison.htm "Up in the cellblocks. A Pentagon memo defines just who gets to see some inmates at Abu Ghraib--and when,"] ''U.S. News & World Report'', June 7, 2004 (Issue):
:"Just days before the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was disclosed to criminal investigators in mid-January, Army lawyers and intelligence officers executed a plan to restrict Red Cross access to the facility west of Baghdad. The new rules were developed by the office of Army Col. [[Marc Warren]], the top legal adviser to Lt. Gen. [[Ricardo Sanchez]], who heads coalition forces in Iraq, and officers of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which controlled the prison.
:"According to a memo obtained by U.S.News , military police and intelligence personnel at Abu Ghraib were told on January 2 about the new plans. Two days later, a Sunday, inspectors from the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] (ICRC) visited Abu Ghraib. The Red Cross team was told that its access to cellblocks 1A and 1B, where most of the abuses had occurred, along with nearby interrogation booths located outside the facility, would be restricted.
:"After the Red Cross objected, the Army gave the inspectors access to 1A and 1B but kept them from interviewing nine 'security internees' being interrogated at the time, the memo said. The Army also maintained a requirement that the Red Cross schedule future visits and be escorted by military personnel.
:"The restrictions were put in place despite the Army's avowed commitment to 'free and unfettered access' to Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities in Iraq, in compliance with the [[Geneva Conventions]]. The new policy was drafted after the Red Cross, in visits to Abu Ghraib last October and November, uncovered abusive treatment."
'''Cover-Up'''
