After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.
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FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Deputy Commander, Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Consultation at Guantanamo July 9-11, 2002. Contents redacted.
This memo 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. An FBI Information Technology ...
Email details an agent's orientation, notes, meetings and briefings upon arriving at Guantanamo, including touring Camp Delta and Camp IV. Document mostly redacted.
The memo states its purpose to be to request SAC authority to open captioned full field investigation in to accusations that officials of the Executive branch are engaged in public corruption. It provides enclosure(s): (1) original and (2) one ...
Responding to email concerning detainees. The memo author states they did not witness or participate in aggressive treatment, interrogations or interviews of military detainees at Guantanamo that was not consistent with FBI policy.
Valerie Caproni is asking if there have been any inquiries concerning the treatment of detainees. The respondent states only two (2), but more may come in.
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Behavioral Assessment of Security and Interview Strategies and Training at Guantanamo. Contents redacted.
Memo is broken up in different sections. One section is entitled potentially relevant federal criminal statutes.
Another section is entitled potential issues to be discussed at May 4, 2004, [the contents are redacted].
Ed Lueckenhoff sent an email stating that "I have been told that all interrogation techniques previously authorized by the Executive Order are still on the table but that certain techniques can only be used if very high-level authority is ...
Email sender is an FBI official in Guantanamo. He notes that Pentagon was scheduled to repatriate four (4) detainees, three (3), (Afghans) and one (1) (Tajik) to their home countries in late October [2002], and that the same plane will return ...
Emails between FBI Officials re: Iraq Interviews in NY with the message: "Here are the inserts of the two interviews I did in NY After your review, let me know if you want me to have them uploaded."
An FBI agent touring Guantanamo witnessed four (4) seperate incidents of detainee abuse, including stess positions, extreme hot/cold rooms, isolation and the use of loud music upon the detainees.
FBI Memo re: To Provide Counterterrorism and CIRG Divisions with a Progress Report. Encloses FBI team "Interrogation Strategy". Document heavily redacted.
Contains multiple EC's re: Fingerprinting, photographing and updating records to reflect detainees who were captured in Afghanistan at the Bagram Collection Point and repatriated or transferred to/from Guantanamo, including transfer to Riyadh, ...
Email details FBI investigation of mistreatment, abuse or "highly aggressive" treatment of detainees in Iraq that are known or observed by FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo. The email states that fourteen (14) agents have witnessed ...
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Behavioral Assessment of Security and Interview Strategies and Training at Guantanamo. Report on Consultation April 2-4, 2002. Contents redacted.
The author is giving a bullet point up-date on the interviewing of detainees at Guantanamo. The up-dates includes: i) continuing assistance to the FBI/CITF; ii) There is a release package for about 20 detainees now up at Belvoir for authority to ...
[Redacted] did not witness or participate in aggressive treatment, interrogations or interviews of GTMO military detainees that was not consistent with FBI policy.
These emails refer to the understanding that the FBI will be the lead interrogators of detainees according to the DOJ-OLC. Ms. Caproni states "I'll be happy to brief you on the particular detainee they are referring to once we know who it is."
This email concerns preparing for an upcoming House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence hearing and preparation of the testimony to be given. One of the emails in this chain states "We didn't actually interview (redacted detainee) at Camp Echo ...
The only discernable text in this five (5) page email are dates and times of the email and the salutation "Thanks for the heads up. talk to you soon." The email is otherwise completely redacted.
Valerie Caproni is trying to schedule a meeting with the recipient. The email states "I am trying to get together the facts on our knowledge of treatment of detainees for the Director. We need to talk today so I can tie down one piece of what we ...
Email discusses detainee's hearing at Guantanamo where press, Amnesty International, ACLU, Human Rights Watch and the American Bar Association were present.