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This Jan. 22, 2002 memo from Jay Bybee (OLC) to Alberto R. Gonzales (Counsel to Pres. George W. Bush) and William H. Haynes II (General Counsel of the DOD) responds to a request for advice on the effect of the War Crimes Act and the Geneva ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
Jay S. Bybee
Alberto Gonzalez | William J. Haynes, II
Alberto Gonzalez, William J. Haynes, II, Jay S. Bybee, George W. Bush
Memo provides guidance to Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) personnel on detainee interrogation procedures. The memo references the President's November 13, 2001 order that stated detainees should be treated humanely.
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
This White House memo discusses the treatment of detainees taken in the War on Terror and how they are to be classified and the determination of their legal status.
Letter from Kenneth Roth the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch to President George W. Bush concerning the accusations of torture and mistreatment of detainees published in an article in the Washington Post newspaper on December 26, 2002. ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Kenneth Roth
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
This White House memo describes U.S. policy toward detainees at Guantanamo.  States that they are not entitled to POW treatment but that they are treated humanely and given many of the protections that POWs are given.

June 01, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
The interviewed detainee stated he had just been released from the fleet hospital approximately 30 minutes before the interview started. The detainee was specifically asked the questions regarding force protection. Asked if he knew or had ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
George W. Bush
State Department memorandum providing background on the Prime Minister's agenda and visit with President Bush at Camp David.
May 04, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Elizabeth Jones
Colin L. Powell
George W. Bush
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 ...
Interview with White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer concerning the various legal issue involved in the applicability of the Geneva Convention as it pertains to detainees and the Vice President's traveling to Kuwait, Egypt, the United Arab ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview
Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney
Washington Post Article re: Extended Detention in Cuba Mulled - Officials Indicate Guantanamo Bay Could Hold Tribunals, Carry Out Sentences
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
George W. Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld