After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

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This document documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 6/27/03. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but is largely redacted.
This document documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 4/14/03. The document is largely redacted, though it does briefly mention Osama bin-Laden and that it was a joint interview between FBI and NCIS.
This document is an updated interrogation Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Slayer, Iraq, updated in May 2004. It contains an interrogation code of conduct instructing interrogators to "treat detainees humanely," forbidding the hooding of ...
This document is a memorandum establishing interrogation and counter-resistance policy for the Combined Joint Task Force Seven in Baghdad, Iraq. It encourages the segregation of detainees "to ensure the success of interrogations and to prevent ...
This document is a series of emails discussing whether there has been guidance given to FBI agents in GTMO or Iraq about when they should stand clear because of the Department of Defense's interrogation tactics or notify an authority if the ...
Dec. 07, 2010
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
This document is a series of emails discussing whether Department of Defense interrogators can force detainees to disrobe. A NYTimes article reported that this was the case, but the officials included in the email dispute this, mentioning that it ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
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This document is a page of handwritten notes concerning FBI practices and interrogation.
This is an email to Valerie Caproni from a redacted agent discussing FBI conduct in Iraq. It states that Caproni's email regarding advice to FBI agents in Iraq is timely because agents have been complaining about the advice they received from CTS.
Dec. 07, 2010
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
This is a page of handwritten notes with the title "FBI GWOT OPS." It lists broad categories of FBI Global War on Terrorism operations.
This is an internal Pentagon document showing the internal review processes for various tasks. It consists of pictograms that illustrate the order of these processes and includes time estimates.