An index of documents, listed document types include ECs and emails.
State Department Talking Points memo on the use of Guantanamo Bay as a detention facility for Al Qaida and Taliban detainees. The memo provides some background information on the decision to use Guantanamo, including the legislative context and ...
Interview of Colin L. Powell regarding the U.S. decision to deny detainees at Guantanamo prisoner of war status. Mr. Powell explains the U.S. government's rationale and explains that by definition detained Taliban and Al-Qaida personnel are ...
State Department talking points memo on addressing the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. The memo gives guidance on addressing: Factual Inquiries Concerning welfare/whereabouts of individual detainees; Mail delivery; Visits of a Consular ...
This State Department letter concerns an inquiry about a young man apprehended in Afghanistan by U.S. Forces and believed to be held at Guantanamo. The letter states that "It is not the he position of the United States government that it does not ...
State Department talking Points on relating to detainees at Guantanamo and the burden of bearing the sole responsibility for the War on Terror.
Questions for Secretary of State Colil Powell from Ben Barber, American Legion Magazine, with Powell's answers re: decision to deny POW status to detainees, status as enemy combatants, foreign criticism of this decision, etc
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Guantanamo Detainees Treatment and Status. These Talking points are to address questions and concerns of foreign governmants such as why families and consulates cannot visit detainees; why US cannot discuss the ...
International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Memo re: Standard ICRC Working Procedures for Visiting Persons Deprived of Liberty
State Department talking points memo on the status of Guantanamo detainees as Unlawful Combatants vs. Prisoners of War (POWs). The memo cites the Geneva Convention's POW requirements that POWs wear a uniform with a distinctive insignia, that they ...