An OLC memo concluding that “the military has the legal authority to detain [Jose Padilla] as a prisoner captured during an international armed conflict,” and that the Posse Comitatus Act poses no bar.
Advises that effective immediatelly, the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) will not request, endorse or in any way participate in the placement of detainees in maximum security facility.
The detainee was interviewed at Camp Delta, and stated that three to four weeks ago, at Camp X-ray, an unknown number of guards "entered his cell, unprovoked, and started spitting and cursing at him. The guards called him a 'son of a bitch' and ...
A detainee interviewed at Camp Delta, Guantanamo stated that approximately three to four weeks earlier, while at Camp X-Ray US soldiers entered his cell and began to beat him without cause or reason. He claims they called him a “son of a bitch” ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap, Isolation
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap, Isolation
Memo describes the observations of a FBI agent, who observed the improper handling of a detainee in an interrogation room at Camp Delta. The agent was in a video observation room and saw a detainee on his knees rubbing a cramp out of his leg ...
DOS Memo confirming a meeting with the ICRC on June 06.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frank E. Schmelzer , P. Michael McKinley, John Allen Buche, Nicholas M. Miscione, Douglas Hunter
Non-legal Memo
Frank E. Schmelzer , P. Michael McKinley, John Allen Buche, Nicholas M. Miscione, Douglas Hunter
This email from JoAnn Dolan forwards a letter received by the U.S. Mission from an attorney representing a Guantanamo Detainee. The letter requests that the detainee be given access to counsel and to have the charges and legal justification for ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Linda Watt | Brent E. Blaschke | Priscilla G. Hernandez | Alexander Karagiannis | Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Linda Watt, Brent E. Blaschke , Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan
Linda Watt | Brent E. Blaschke | Priscilla G. Hernandez | Alexander Karagiannis | Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Linda Watt, Brent E. Blaschke , Eliana Davidson
Email from JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email from the London mission from containing a letter from an attorney representing a detainee held at Guantanamo. The email from Ms. Dolan to Ms. Davidson is redacted, but the letter attached below.
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan, and policy guidance for ...
Powerpoint presentation gives details of the Geneva Conventions, and the 5 S's (Search, Silence, Segregate, Safeguard and Speed to the rear).