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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July 22, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 542
These emails are between Marine Corps officers concerning an updated version of the detainee abuse cases involving Marines. The email has a spreadsheet attached that is not readable in the document; however, the email alludes to details contained ...
July 22, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 543
This US Marine Corp spreadsheet lists twenty-one (21) cases of alleged detainee abuse. The table of cases includes ten (10) substantiated incidents and eleven (11) unsubstantiated incidents. The incidents include: beating detainees with fists; ...
May 26, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 544
These emails are between Marine Corp investigators seeking a marine who is suspected in a detainee abuse case. One officer concludes that the Marine they are looking for is located, but that the photo initiating the investigation was a staged ...
May 26, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 550
The Division Chief of the Personal Crimes Department at NCIS requests information regarding a detainee death of which the Division Chief was previously unaware. The email provides a summary of an incident in which a detainee "died of unknown ...
May 27, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 551
NCIS Special Agent follows up on a previous email from the Division Chief of the Personal Crimes Department at NCIS, who had requested information regarding a detainee death of which he was previously unaware. The original email provides a ...
June 07, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 552
String of emails in response to NCIS inquiry into an incident mentioned in a USMC report regarding all Iraqi detainee abuse and death cases. The NCIS official had not heard of one incident concerning detainee who is suspected of dying of head ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Threat, Assault/death
Aug. 02, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 554
The Deputy Assistant Director of the NCIS Counterterrorism Department reports on possible cases of abuse that might be referred to NCIS. The Deputy Assistant Director received a call from the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) regarding ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
Use of phobias
June 28, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 555
The NCIS Division Chief of the Personal Crimes Department reports that they have received three (3) referrals from the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) regarding alleged detainee abuse at Guantanamo. NCIS held off initiating action ...
June 21, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 556
Series of emails regarding procedures to follow regarding bodies of deceased detainee at Al-Taqaddum Air Base ("TQ"). NCIS emails instructs recipient to "try to find that body, we’ll exhume if possible." In response to resistance to exhumation ...
June 24, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 558
The Division Chief, Personal Crimes Department of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service discusses manpower needs at Guantanamo and Iraq and case theory behind investigations, and states "We've held off initiating any action pending the ...