TIME Sunday: Inquiries into CIA killing of detainee suggest coverup

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TIME OBTAINS RECORDS OF THREE OFFICIAL INQUIRIES INTO PRISONER'S DEATH IN CIA INTERROGATION AT ABU GHRAIB / Blood-Stained Hood at Death Scene Removed, Then Discarded, According to Documents / Prisoner's Blood Cleaned Off Interrogation Room Floor Prior to Investigation, Documents Say / Interrogator of Dead Prisoner Initially Failed to Disclose Photos of Corpse, According to Documents / Documents Raise Doubts About Legal Oversight of the Agency

New York - Hundreds of pages of documents, obtained by TIME, shed new light on how a CIA prisoner died at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Military police at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison dubbed him the Iceman; others used the nickname Mr. Frosty, TIME's Adam Zagorin reports. The prisoner is listed as Manadel al-Jamadi in three official investigations of his death while in U.S. custody, a death that was ruled a homicide in a Defense Department autopsy. Photographs of his battered corpse-iced to keep it from decomposing in order to hide the true circumstances of his dying-were among the many made public in the spring of 2004, raising stark questions about America's treatment of enemy detainees, TIME reports.