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This Joint Personnel Recovery Agency Draft Exploitation Plan crafted by Bruce Jessen and others in 2002 proposed the creation of a secret military interrogation facility abroad. The plan details personnel requirements, strategies for ...
Non-legal Memo
Bruce Jessen
EIT, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation
State Department cable to Geneva Mission to deliver a letter to Theo van Boven, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, assuring him that "the [Guantanamo] detainees are not being subjected to mental or physical abuse," detailing nature of ...
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 ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, James A. Larocco
This is a memo detailing the visit of a three-person behavioral interrogation team's visit to Abu Zubaydah's holding compound and "evolving" interrogation room. It includes details of the team's suggestions for cell modifications, including "the ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
Light or sound, Environmental manipulation

An OLC memo concluding that Congress cannot interfere with the President's exercise of his authority as Commander in Chief to control the conduct of operations during war, including his authority to promulgate rules to regulate military ...

Mar. 02, 2009
Legal Memo
Patrick Philbin
Daniel J. Bryant
Patrick Philbin, Daniel J. Bryant, John C. Yoo
Report of Proceedings of an AR 15-6 investigation into facts and circumstances surrounding reports of inappropriate or unauthorized pictures of John Walker Lindh taken by member of Special Forces at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan on or about ...
July 15, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Marie A. O'Rourke
John Walker Lindh
Summary of a FBI interview of a detainee being held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay about his affiliation with the Taliban/Al Qaeda. Mentioned that he was transferred to Camp X-ray from Kandahar. The detainee stated he had no ties to Taliban, that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious, Other
State Department cable concerning the German representative to the Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers. Justice Ministry committee told U.S. Embassy officials thast military commissions are "extraordinary courts" and thus "run counter to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell
Message concerning seriously mentally ill Guantanamo detainee stating; US authorities are of the view that he must be repatriated for long term care; in a meeting last week DOD Office of General Counsel advised of the urgency of finding a place ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
David A. Kaye, Edward R. Cummings, Brent E. Blaschke , Eliana Davidson
Army memo in connection to an AR 15-6 investigation. The memo states the appointment of an Officer to investigate whether Special Forces Group Five (5) knowingly withheld requested documentation and photographic evidence from Dept. of Justice in ...
July 15, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Geoffrey C. Lambert
David Burford
David P. Burford, Geoffrey C. Lambert
John Walker Lindh