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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Email between Joint Task Force 7 with attached spreadsheet. The email states "[This reflects the information we gathered from all subordinate elements on whether or not they maintained a temporary detention facility or an interrogation facility ...
Email references September 2003 Sanchez memo on "CJTF-7 Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy" and asks for a signed copy of the "current policy". The email states "You're listed as the POC on Interrogation end Counter-Resistance Policy ...
Major requests follow-up information about interrogations, specifically solders' statements saying that [redacted] sometimes removed detainees from the holding facility for brief periods of time (5 minutes to an hour) for questioning. Major ...
Navy Criminal Investigative Service Officer asks about two brothers who were held in Iraq stating that when he saw them they looked "pretty shaken up (shivering from cold and laying on concrete all night). It appeared they had gone through a few ...
May 15, 2006
Email
General, Temperature, Physical assault, Environmental manipulation
Email between Army officers regarding detainee operations and the need for getting "the right people" in theater.
This email has an attachment entitled " Detainee Ops 24 Aug. doc." (attachment not included) and the comment "Sir, MG Burns asked for an electronic copy of this response to send forward ... have attached." this is by a Lieutenant Colonel, G3 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Julian H. Burns
These emails concern the training of forces pre-deployment in the proper manner to handle detainees in the Blakans.
This email forwards information concerning the UN-KFOR experience in Kosovo and the lessons learned from that military engagement as it pertains to training soldiers on handling detainee operations, and the proper way to recognize and report ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
Theses emails concern a request for a regular update on the collection and status of criminal cases involving detainee abuse. Some the emails refer to potential upcoming congressional testimony and several of the emails are repeated and resent.
This email forwards a news article from the Slate news service on the investigation of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. There is no context to the email.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Ricardo Sanchez