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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Aug. 29, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6003
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's review of the detainee issues and its request for documents pertaining to possible detainee abuse.
Email
FBI General Counsel
Valerie E. Caproni
Oct. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6001
The document is a memorandum summarizing the results of the 10/26/04 debriefing of a previous Iraq Deployment On-Scene Commander (OSC) and two Deputy On-Scene Commanders and recommendations for future Iraq deployments. The topics of discussion ...
Non-legal Memo
Counterterrorism Division
Counterterrorism Division
Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Willie T. Hulon, M. Chris Briese
Apr. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5997
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the Counterterrorism Division to all divisions, regarding the establishment of the Terrorism Incident Response Protocol (TIRP) - a tool to improve the efficiency of responses to acts of ...
Non-legal Memo
Counterterrorism Division
Frankie Battle, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Thomas G. Donlon, M. Chris Briese, Robert A. Blecksmith
Nov. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5995
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the General Counsel to all divisions, regarding an appropriate course of action in response to requests received from military criminal investigative services to interview FBI personnel ...
Legal Memo
FBI General Counsel
Dec. 21, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 5990
The document is a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the FBI's withholding of key information about the abusive treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.
Letter
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Robert S. Mueller
Patrick Leahy, Robert S. Mueller
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5989
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a detainee issue. The email has been heavily redacted, so the contents of the email are unknown.
Email
Kenneth L. Wainstein
Robert S. Mueller | Valerie E. Caproni
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Valerie E. Caproni
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6195
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Valerie Caproni to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the definition of the abuse and/or mistreatment of prisoners as well as what type of conduct should and should not be reported.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
Feb. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6198
The document is an internal FBI detainee interrogation report. The report is almost entirely redacted, but pertains to the interrogation of Detainee 00269DP at Guantanamo Bay.
June 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6211
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of extreme and abusive interrogation techniques against detainees by the military as well as the procedures for reporting such techniques to the Department of Defense.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Mohammed al Qahtani
Jan. 06, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6216
The document is a series of internal FBI emails, regarding the JTF GTMO and SOUTHCOM requests for unredacted copies of documents released to the ACLU.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas, Frankie Battle