This document is a fax detailing the work by the FBI with detainees held by the Northern Alliance in Sheberghan, Afghanistan. it concludes that, at this time, no detainee can be considered "safe" and recommends several for transfer to Bagram and ...
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 ...
This CIA cable recommends the continuation of the interrogation/debriefing process, particularly for Abu Zubaydah and mentions the psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen.
This is a chart which lists 384 detainees of the US government; everything but their names, the dates of ARB completion, and their home countries are redacted.
These slides contain the first section of a two-part presentation given by Dr. Bruce Jessen to train American interrogators headed to Guantanamo Bay on how to extract information from detainees.
This document contains a citizen's letter to President Bush voicing disapproval that Afghan prisoners are not treated like prisoners of war and includes an attached article from the San Francisco Chronicle. The document also contains an August ...
Index of DOJ advice on interrogations, including OLC memos, letters, testimony.
Aug. 31, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Alberto Gonzalez, John A. Rizzo, Jay Bybee, John C. Yoo, William "Jim" Haynes, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, John McLaughlin, John Ashcroft, Daniel B. Levin, James B. Comey, William E. Moschella, Steven Bradbury, John B. Bellinger, III, Ron Lee Wyden, Brian A. Benczkowski
Non-legal Memo
Alberto Gonzalez, John A. Rizzo, Jay Bybee, John C. Yoo, William "Jim" Haynes, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, John McLaughlin, John Ashcroft, Daniel B. Levin, James B. Comey, William E. Moschella, Steven Bradbury, John B. Bellinger, III, Ron Lee Wyden, Brian A. Benczkowski
This OLC summary contains advice to the Counsel to President, CIA, and DOD on the use and legality of interrogation techniques in the war against terrorism.
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
Abu Zubaydah
Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Walling, Threat, Assault/death, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias
Legal Memo
Abu Zubaydah
Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Walling, Threat, Assault/death, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias
This 2002 cable requests that IC Psychologist James Mitchell remain at the undisclosed location in order to provide continued assistance in the Abu Zubaydah interrogation. The cable states that Mitchell's role is "key" and they need him there to ...
This is a memo from the Chief of the White House Liaison Section, Executive Services Division, Washington Headquarters Services, DOD to the National Security Council Records Management Office reporting that the "Under Secretary of Defense for ...