Details of Cover-Up in Detainee's Death Emerge (washingtonpost.com): "Capt. Donald J. Reese, commander of the 372nd Military Police Company, said he was summoned to a shower room in a cellblock at the prison one night in November, where he discovered a group of intelligence personnel standing around the body of a bloodied detainee discussing what to do. He said Col. Thomas M. Pappas, commander of military intelligence at the prison, was among those who were there.
Reese testified that he heard Pappas say, 'I'm not going down for this alone.' Reese said an Army colonel named Jordan sent a soldier to the mess hall for ice to preserve the body overnight. (It is not clear whether Reese was referring to Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, head of the interrogation center at the prison.) Reese said no medics were called, and the detainee's identification was never logged. An autopsy the next day determined that the man had died of a blood clot resulting from a blow to the head, Reese said, and the body was hooked up to an intravenous drip and taken out of the prison. "
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