TheChurch report on detainee interrogation and incarceration (officiallyReview of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques) is a US government report completed under the direction ofVice AdmiralAlbert T. Church, an officer in theUnited States Navy. Church was then the NavalInspector General.

Church's mandate was to investigate the interrogation and incarceration of detainees in theUnited States "war on terror", inAfghanistan,Iraq andGuantanamo Bay. The inquiry was initiated on May 25, 2004.^[1] A version of its report was finished on March 2, 2005 and published on March 11.

An unclassified 21-page executive summary has been circulated. The full 368-page report is classified.

Church and his staff interviewed 800 individuals, Washington policy-makers, Armed Services members, and allies of the United States.Human Rights Watch reports that the Church inquiry didn't interview any detainees.

• The inquiry concluded that 26 deaths in custody merited homicide charges.
• Senior officers ignored warning signs, like the reports submitted to them by the Red Cross.

On February 11, 2009, theAmerican Civil Liberties Union received an unredacted copy of the report.^[2] They published an excerpt allegedly proving illegalabuses of power had resulted in the death of several individuals.^[3]

• Original 2005 Church Report redacted release
  • Part 1Archived 2017-02-02 at theWayback Machine
  • Part 2Archived 2017-01-31 at theWayback Machine
  • Part 3Archived 2013-03-15 at theWayback Machine
  • Church Report
• Further Church Report material released in litigation
  • Report p.281Archived 2017-02-02 at theWayback Machine, released April 2008
  • Report pp. 353-365Archived 2017-01-31 at theWayback Machine, released April 2008
  • Report pp.235 & 242Archived 2017-01-31 at theWayback Machine, released January 2009

• Fay Report
• Ryder Report

• Church Report Falls Short of Establishing Accountability; PHR Calls for Independent Commission to Investigate Torture by US Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo,Physicians for Human Rights March 14, 2005
• New Interrogation Rules Set for Detainees in Iraq, reprint fromThe New York Times, March 10, 2005
• US Military Says 26 Inmate Deaths May Be Homicide, reprint fromThe New York Times, March 16, 2005
• Abuse Review Exonerates Policy: Low-Level Leaders and Confusion Blamed,The Washington Post March 10, 2005
• Center for Constitutional Rights Says Rumsfeld Must be Held Accountable for Inmate Homicides in Iraq And Afghanistan,

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