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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Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 474
Email is a response to Sen. Barbara Milkulski's request for information. It states that FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] attachment, called Detainee ops, has as its purpose "to provide information on the pre-mobilization training of ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Barbara A. Mikulski
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 475
Training guidance for all soldiers who come in to contact with detainees. This traininig is is related to detainee operations. Attachment outlines training curriculum for all units performing internment & detainment operations under Operation ...
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1117
The purpose of the memo was to provide updated information on the courts-martial involving allegations of abuse against detainees near the Samarra Bridge in the Tigris River. Describes incidents in which one Iraqi detainee drowned, and another ...
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2036
These emails is a response to Senator Mikulski (D-MD) concerning the Pre-mobilization training information for 372 MP Company. The document has an attachment with the specific questions Sen. Mikulski tasked the Army to answer and gives details on ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Barbara A. Mikulski
Aug. 03, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2745

Refers to informal comments on memo. All other info redacted.

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
David E. Nahmias
Patrick Rowan | John Richter | Daniel B. Levin | Christopher A. Wray
David E. Nahmias, Christopher A. Wray, Patrick Rowan, Daniel B. Levin, John Richter
Aug. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3045
Detainee issue. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4646
This State Department document is a point-by-point response to an opinion (not enclosed) by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the United Nations former Commission on Human Rights, to the U.S. detention of Al Qaeda operatives and others ...
Aug. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5447
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent reported observing no aggressive ...
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5910
This Cable from DOS Washington to the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland contains a letter from US Sec. of State Colin Powell to the human rights group Amnesty International regarding detainees held by the US government at Guantanamo Bay Detention ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Colin L. Powell
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5892
This DOS Cable is to the US Mission in Geneva Switzerland to respond to the human rights organization Amnesty International with a letter describing the US position concerning the detention & treatment of detainees in the War on Terror.