The Church report on detainee interrogation and incarceration (officially Review of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques) is a report completed under the direction of Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, an officer in the United States Navy.
Church's mandate was to investigate the interrogation and incarceration of detainees in the United States "war on terror", in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
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.
[2] They published an excerpt allegedly proving illegal abuses of power had resulted in the death of several individuals.