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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Jan. 29, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3938
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Detainee Access." There is no other discernible information or context.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Jan. 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3977
DOS Cable re: Secretary of State Powell's January 25, 2003 Meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger. Heavily redacted: Simply states that Powell met with Kellenberger in Davos on June 25 (which seems to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Richard A. Boucher, Craig A. Kelly
Jan. 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4014
Subject line states ICRC only. Ms. Dolan's remarkes are "The cable is in on yesterday's meeting. I also have copies of the two ICRC letters referred from PRM. If anyone does not have copies already, let me know and I will get them around." ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald | Waldo W. Brooks | Edward R. Cummings
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Waldo W. Brooks , Edward R. Cummings
Jan. 15, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4015
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Ed Cummings, Joshua Dorosin and Others re: PC Memo in Detainee-as sent. There is an attachment on the email, but the attachment is not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Waldo W. Brooks | Todd F. Buchwald | Andre M. Surena | Steve A. Solomon
Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Steven A. Solomon
Jan. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4381
State Department cable forwarding on to Washington a letter received from Louis Joinet, the UN Special Rapporteur of Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the deprivation of liberty at Guantanamo, and requesting information on the ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Kevin Edward Moley
Jan. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4382
State Department cable concerning Sec. of State Powell's upcoming meeting with the Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey. Document mostly redacted.
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 08, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2844

This email contains the following headings:"Interview/Interrogation Considerations," "Observations," "Recommendations," and "Additional Considerations."   Contents completely redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole | Pasquale D'Amuro | Kenneth L. Wainstein | Larry A. Mefford
John S. Pistole, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Larry A. Mefford, Pasquale D'Amuro
Jan. 21, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2913
Request for a draft of policy recommendations, training recommendations, and implementation recommendations for FBI agents engaging in interviews at Guantanamo. The email implies that discrepancies between Department of Homeland Security and FBI ...
Jan. 23, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3677
Congressional Correspondence Tasker Form from a member of Congress to Paul V. Kelly Asst. Sec. for Legislative Affairs at the State Department requesting an image of a document (not stated).
Oct. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Paul V. Kelly
Jan. 28, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6127
The document is an Operations Order drafted by the FBI Counterterrorism Division (CTD) to support the CTD's plan for the integration of FBI assets with the Department of Defense in Iraq to exploit Iraqi Intelligence Services (IIS) personnel, ...
Other
Robert S. Mueller, Pasquale D'Amuro, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Stephen R. Wiley, Charles Frahm, Andrew Arena