Details about mistreatment of Iraqi detainees continue to emerge from the documents obtained by the ACLU. Wednesday's Washington Post reports the abuse was widespread. It also occurred over a three year time period -- blowing out of the water Administration claims of a few bad apples at a particular place like Abu Ghraib or even a particular point in time.

New documents released yesterday detail a series of probes by Army criminal investigators into multiple cases of threatened executions of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers, as well as of thefts of currency and other private property, physical assaults, and deadly shootings of detainees at detention camps in Iraq.

In many of the newly disclosed cases, Army commanders chose noncriminal punishments for those involved in the abuse, or the investigations were so flawed that prosecutions could not go forward, the documents show. Human rights groups said yesterday that, as a result, the penalties imposed were too light to suit the offenses.