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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State Department cable concerning the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Staff meeting notes from January 23, 2002. Multiple topics, including detainees. "Public Reaction re detainees is turning very negative." Concerns of various countries ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Paula J. Dobriansky
This State Department memo provides breakdown by nationality of 27 Bagram detainees; states that “Bagram is a temporary ‘collection center’ where some detainees stop over en route to their permanent location.  The conditions at Bagram are ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Gregory M. Suchan
Gregory M. Suchan, Richard Lee Armitage
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: May 1 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: January 22 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Jonathan M. Crock, James A. Larocco
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Brent E. Blaschke , Pierre-Richard Prosper
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Cable is a forwarding of a request from the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to visit and examine the detainees in the custody of the U.S.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Mirta Alvarez, Kevin Edward Moley, Colin L. Powell
This State Department cable provides Washington with a round-up of a press briefing held in China where Chinese government officials were questioned about world affairs. Al-Qaeda's role with Chinese separatists; Pakistan; and the Middle East ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush
State Department cable concerning Ambassador Dan Coats meeting with German Foreign Affairs State Secretary Gunter Pleuger. Mr. Pleuger requested the meeting to discuss the Guantanamo detainees. Mr. Pleuger and later Foreign Minister Fischer ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Daniel Ray Coats