During a hearing in February, he confessed to having provided to WikiLeaks videos of airstrikes in which civilians were killed, a quarter-million diplomatic cables, assessment files of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and logs of military incident reports from Iraq and Afghanistan.
On other matters, in his first wide-ranging conversation with reporters as attorney general, Mr. Holder said the Justice Department was still reviewing the case files of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to determine whether they could be released or would be tried in a civilian criminal court or some other legal forum.
The data included 250,000 cables from American diplomats stationed around the world, 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and logs of military incident reports, assessment files of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and war zone videos of airstrikes in Afghanistan and Iraq war in which civilians were killed.
That covered the so-called "Collateral Murder" video of an Apache helicopter attack in Iraq; some US diplomatic cables including one of the early WikiLeaks publications the Reykjavik cable; portions of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs; some of the files on detainees in Guantánamo; and two intelligence memos.
Morrell said that the Guantánamo Review Task Force, established in January 2009 by the Obama administration, considered the leaked files during its review of detainee information.
The Department of Defense DODD) released 198 photographs on Friday from Army and Navy criminal investigative files related to allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, the first time the US government has ever disclosed such images.
Williamson described two parallel U.S. review processes; (1) review of the files of all 242 detainees at BRUSSELS 00000269 002 OF 003 Guantanamo, and (2) review of policies involving detention, Guantanamo, and related issues.
Under Mr. Obama's recent executive order, the Justice Department will be required to review the files of the 245 detainees at Guantánamo and draw up a proposal on their fate that will fulfill the pledge to close the facility.
The files detail cases of detainees who were kept at Guantánamo even though they had been assessed to pose no risk.
After a Reuters article reported that WikiLeaks has the files of every Guant?mo detainee, a government official told The Times that the government believed the claim was correct and that it referred to a set of nearly 800 detainee "threat assessment" files compiled by the Pentagon during the Bush administration.
