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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May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2132
Emails discuss a meeting with Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to discuss the following: detainee deaths, homicides and investigations, Red Cross issues, Migration of interrogation techniques and interrogations (GTMO - Baghram - Iraq), ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
James A. Coggin, Keith B. Alexander, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, George W. Casey, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, James R. Schlesinger, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 26, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2136
This email includes a summary entitled "Detainee Abuse Tasking Summary," which lists the ongoing and future activities of the Office of the Provost Marshall General (OPMG). The OPMG's activities include combat support, "policy-doctrine-training ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2137
This email includes a summary entitled "Detainee Abuse Tasking Summary," which lists the ongoing and future activities of the Office of the Provost Marshall General (OPMG). The OPMG's activities include combat support, "policy-doctrine-training ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Thomas J. Romig, Antonio Taguba
May 28, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2140
Email includes a summary of the Office of Provost Marshall General's activities, which include providing the Army's Office of the Chief Legislative Liaison (OCLL) with the number of female detainees in custody at Abu Ghraib (BCCF or Baghdad ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba
June 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2145
The original email's author needs a copy of MG Miller's report sent to him/her. [No attachments included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba, Geoffrey D. Miller
June 15, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2175
Email discusses six hot button issues [redacted] found in a Captain's report that is written in response to Major General Antonio Taguba's report. Also, the Captain's report comments on omissions made by MG Taguba in his report, omissions the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Other
June 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2200
Emails include a tasking summary and a CID detainee abuse summary/chart. The summary provides that the CID is investigating: 80 violations (in facilities), 38 detainee deaths, 38 assaults, 3 sexual assaults, and a theft; 43 violations (outside of ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Other
June 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2203
Email includes an executive summary that discusses the DOA's investigations into detainee abuse, including the different types of support they have received thus far.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Keith B. Alexander, George R. Fay, Donald J. Ryder, Geoffrey D. Miller, James R. Schlesinger, Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba, James A. Coggin, Chris Geren, Michael D. Maples, Edward Moore, Jr.
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2226
Emails discuss an upcoming briefing on detainee operations. The briefing considers concerns that the Commanding General has concerning the number of crew served weapons, a concern also discussed in the Taguba report. [Some content redacted].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2239
Document includes a detainee abuse Q&A that asks a series of questions about detainee abuse, detainee death and detainee abuse/death investigations.
Feb. 15, 2006
Other
Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Donald J. Ryder, Lynndie Rana England, Janis Leigh Karpinski