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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DOA | ACLU-RDI 206

A list of the 106 annexes to the Taguba Report.

Oct. 19, 2004
Chart/List
Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas
July 15, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 202
Document Index: Intelligence Interrogation of Enemy Combatant Detainee Ali Saleh al-Marri. Contents redacted.
Apr. 06, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Other
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri
July 15, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 203
Document Index: Intelligence Interrogation of Enemy Combatant a Detainee. there is a compliation of six (6) documents listed as produced.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 199
This DOD memo asks the recipient to review the attached draft implementing guidance developed to support approved policy on release or transfer of detainees.
July 03, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 200
This DOD tasking memo stating that the action to be completed needs to be re-tasked.
Feb. 07, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 201
This is a memo from President Bush to the Vice President and other key administration personnel stating that "none of the provisions of Geneva apply to our conflict with al Qaeda in Afghanistan or elsewhere throughout the world because, among ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
Richard B. Cheney | Colin L. Powell | Donald H. Rumsfeld
George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Colin L. Powell, John D. Ashcroft, George J. Tenet
May 05, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 196
This memo summarizes a conversation with a DIA personnel who was involved in detainee interrogations in Iraq. The DIA personnel corroborated a Washington Post article describing incidents occurring at Iraqi prisons and that senior leadership knew ...
June 15, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 197
This memo summarizes a debriefing of a DIA officer who was in Iraq conducting counter-intelligence operations and detainee interrogations. The DIA officer participated in the interrogation of a suspected bomb maker. He stated that the detainee ...
July 08, 2002 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 198
This taking memo asks recipient to review the attached draft implementing guidance developed to support approved policy on release or transfer of detainees.
June 05, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 194
This email pertains to an investigation in to possible violation of law concerning the interrogation of a Bosnian national found that “at the time of the incident, there were no specific guidelines regarding interrogation techniques of detainee ...