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June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6189
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Michael P. Kortan, Grant Ashley
Physical assault, General
June 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6190
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Robert S. Mueller
Eleni P. Kalisch, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell Jacoby
Jose Padilla
Dec. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6064
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of a full investigation into the FBI's handling of allegations of detainee abuse, including any FBI personnel who may have either witnessed or ...
Email
John S. Pistole
Robert S. Mueller
John S. Pistole, Robert S. Mueller, Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, Willie T. Hulon, Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Toni M. Fogle, Thomas J. Harrington
Dec. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6063
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a detainee's allegation of experiencing abusive treatment from two FBI agents in Afghanistan.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Willie T. Hulon, Robert S. Mueller, Eleni P. Kalisch, Cassandra M. Chandler, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
May 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6055
The document is series of an internal FBI emails regarding whether any FBI personnel had firsthand knowledge of any abuse of detainees at Abu Ghuraib Prison. The emails conclude that no FBI personnel had any such knowledge.
Email
John S. Pistole
Robert S. Mueller | Bruce J. Gebhardt
Gary M. Bald, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole, Michael P. Kortan
Mar. 21, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6020
The document is a memorandum including the minutes from the SAAC Director's Advisory Committees Meeting held from March 21 through 25, 2005. The notes include information received from noted speakers/presenters and cover numerous other areas.
Non-legal Memo
Special Agents Advisory Committee
Robert S. Mueller, Gary M. Bald, Maureen Baginski, Warren T. Bamford, John Lewis, Chris Swecker, Jonathan I. Solomon, Charles Phalen
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