This memorandum addresses the detention and correction facilities, policies, and procedures carried out by the United States Military in Iraq.. Assessments for this memorandum were conducted from Oct. 13, 2003-Nov. 6, 2003. The memorandum ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Oversight Report
Donald J. Ryder
Mark Inch, Michael Shannon, Donald J. Ryder
Non-legal Memo, Oversight Report
Donald J. Ryder
Mark Inch, Michael Shannon, Donald J. Ryder
This DoD Memo addresses the circumstances leading up to the creation of the Guantanamo facility and the conflict Al Qaida and Taliban forces have initiated against the United States and the other western powers. The memo states that the U.S. has ...
This document is comprised of two parts, a checklist and a draft of a report. The document is heavily redacted, but references waterboarding.
CIA copy of the complete text of the Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Policy Brigade by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba (the U.S. Army's report on Iraqi prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad). The report is also known ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Other
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, David D. McKiernan, R. Steven Whitcomb, Kinard J. La Fate, Donald J. Ryder, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Jerry Phillabaum, Donald J. Reese , Janis Leigh Karpinski, Luciana Spencer, Jeremy C. Sivits, Sabrina D. Harman, Javal Sean Davis, Lynndie Rana England
Other
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, David D. McKiernan, R. Steven Whitcomb, Kinard J. La Fate, Donald J. Ryder, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Jerry Phillabaum, Donald J. Reese , Janis Leigh Karpinski, Luciana Spencer, Jeremy C. Sivits, Sabrina D. Harman, Javal Sean Davis, Lynndie Rana England
An OLC memo analyzing the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War ("GC"). The memo provides three opinions. Part I concludes that "GC governs the occupation of Iraq." Part II discusses GC's general ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Legal Memo
Jack Goldsmith
Scott Muller
William J. Haynes, II, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alberto R. Gonzales
Legal Memo
Jack Goldsmith
Scott Muller
William J. Haynes, II, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alberto R. Gonzales
FBI email to FBI field agents encouraging them to report incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. One (1) agent responded that he observed a detainee in a "stress position", but the details are not in his email response.
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent who toured ...
Memo prepared by the CIA General Counsel to the CIA Office of the Inspector General contained legal analysis and conclusions.
An OLC memo concluding that the CIA’s proposed interrogation plan for Abu Zubaydah — which contemplates methods including “insects placed in a confinement box” and “the waterboard” — does not violate ...
This State Department document is a point-by-point response to an opinion (not enclosed) by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the United Nations former Commission on Human Rights, to the U.S. detention of Al Qaeda operatives and others ...