Title/Author

(Bush) - Detention, treatment and trial of certain non-citizens in the war against terrorism.  The President declares a national emergency and asserts that detainees shall be treated humanely and "afforded adequate food, drinking water, shelter, clothing medical treatment and allowed free exercise of religion."

(Bush) - Humane treatment of Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees.  The President suspends the Geneva Conventions.

(Bush) - Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions common Article 3 as applied to a program of detention and interrogation operated by the Central Intelligence Agency

(Philbin-Yoo) - Possible Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction over aliens held at Guantanmo Bay. Argues that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay may not sue for mistreatment.

(Bybee) - Application of Treaties and Laws to Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees.  Minimizes relative importance of violations of Geneva Conventions' medical provisions (pp 5, 28).

(Gonzales) - Decisions re application of the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Parts of Conventions are "quaint;" arguments for applying them to Al-Qaeda and Taliban are "unpersuasive."

(Bybee) - Standards of Conduct for Interrogation. Defines torture, pain, suffering and Post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD) etc. as sequellae of torture.  Accepts interrogational drugs (p 9). Quotes Amer Psychiatric Assn endorsing of DSM-IV [but does not note its endorsement of Declarations of Madrid and Tokyo] (p 11).

(Levin) - Memorandum for Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Withdraws and supersedes Bybee 8-01-2002.  Reviews its medical claims.

(Yoo, Delahunty) - Application of treaties and laws to Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees.  Nonapplication of such treaties and laws.

Jay Bybee,
Asst Attorney General

Memorandum for John A.  Rizzo, Senior Deputy General Counsel, CIA

Re: Application of 8 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A  to Certain Techniques That May Be Used in the Interrogation of a High Value al Qaeda Detainee.

This 46 page memo authorizes the harsh interrogation of an unnamed prisoner and describes the psychological assessment and proposed medical monitoring.

Memorandum for John A.  Rizzo, Senior Deputy General Counsel, CIA

Re: Application of 8 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A  to Certain Techniques That May Be Used in the Interrogation of a High Value Qaeda Detainees.

This 20 page memo authorizes the harsh interrogation of  unnamed prisoners and describes the psychological assessment and proposed medical monitoring.

ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value" Detainees in CIA Custody.

This report details interviews with CIA prisoners describing beatings, shackling, suffocation and other harsh interrogation techniques.  It describes the role of health care personnel in monitoring prisoners during interrogation, threatening prisoners and treating torture related injuries.

(Rumsfeld) - Status of Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Secretary of Defense directs that the Geneva Conventions are suspended [3 weeks before the President does so].

(Rumsfeld [prepared by Haynes]) - Counter Resistance Techniques.  Secretary of Defense response to Oct 11 Beaver/Phifer memo, including giving interrogators discretion over whether to honor prisoners' requests for medical attention.

(Rumsfeld) - Counter Resistance Techniques.  Secretary of Defense rescinds his directive of Nov. 27, 2002.

Working Group Report. Detainee interrogations. This Rumsfeld appointed working group outlines coercive interrogation, warns that it is poor technique for many reasons, says that medical personnel must be available.

(Rumsfeld) -Memorandum for US Southern Command; Counter Resistance Techniques This memo implements coercive interrogation, described the goal of exploiting emotional and physical strengths and weaknesses and directs medical oversight.

Procedures for Investigation into Deaths of Detainees in the Custody of the Armed Forces of the United States.

Reviews medical policies for reporting suspicion of prisoner abuse. See Section 17-2ff

(Winkenwerder) - Medical Program Principles and Procedures for the Protection and Treatment of Detainees. This policy distinguishes between clinical and nonclinical (i.e. interrogational) responsibilities, subordinates clinical ethics to US interpretations of law, limits confidentiality of POWS and potentially engages clinicians in supervising harm.

Medical Program Support for Detainee Operations.  Policy for clinicians on the Behavioral Science Consultation Teams (BSCTs).

(England) - DoD intelligence Interrogations, Detainee Debriefings, and Tactical Questioning.  This memo consolidated DoD policy after the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act and asserts that medical information can be released to assist to any lawful intelligence or national security activity and that Behavioral Science Consultants and assist in interrogations but do not provide medical care except in emergencies when no other clinicians are available.

Procedures following the death of a detainee in CFLCC [Coalition Forces Land Component Command] custody.

AR [Army Regulation] 40-57. 1991 Policy Manual for the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System

Operations Manual 2001 #5154.24 describes responsibilities. 

Operations Manual 2003 #5154.30 describes responsibilities.

Army Regulations 190-8:6-14(5-6). Regarding medical care, sanitation, death and burial of prisoners.

Summary of DOD policies on prisoners. Includes policies regarding notification of deaths, recent deaths of prisoners at Bagram, etc.

To Navy: E mail says that policies for investigating homicides are classified.

Army Interim Policy for Medical and Criminal Investigation of Prisoner Deaths (pdf p. 68-69).

Forwarding of Original Case Files Pertaining to Detainee Abuse/Death Investigations

Criminal Investigation Operational Procedures.  This pertains to reporting detainee deaths. 

Army Policy for Forwarding Medical and Criminal Investigation Records pertaining to Prisoner Deaths and abuse (pdf p. 77-78).

General prison policy summary including medical care and feeding (p. 6233-6238).

Marine Corps Detention Standard Operating Procedures.  Includes medical policies

Emails regarding death investigations

Emails regarding autopsy procedures.  Discussing disposition of bodies for prisoners.

Emails regarding death investigations

Emails regarding death investigations

Detainee Personal Data Collection

Interrogation and Counter Resistance Policy. Implements Rumsfeld's 4/16/03 Guantanamo standards for coercive interrogation memo (including medical oversight of interrogation) in Afghanistan. (pg 91ff).

Detainee Procedures. Includes Medical procedures

Coalition policy for Iraq prisons, medical care, care of mentally ill, death and use of restraints

Policy for recording the death of a prisoner and disposing of the body, Tikrit, Iraq (p. 2070-71).

Iraq: Intake processing for prisoners.  Brief Powerpoint orientation.

(Miller) - Assessment of DOD Counterterrorism Interrogation and Detention Operations.  General Miller establishes the Behavioral Science Consultation Team (BSCT) in Iraq.

Prisoner Inprocessing at Ironhorse in Iraq (p. 2078-2090).

Tikrit, Iraq, Camp Ironhorse. Treatment of Detainees. Includes policy standards for health care for prisoners

(Sanchez) - Interrogation and Counter Resistance Policy.  Implements Rumsfeld's 4/16/03 Guantanamo standards for coercive interrogation memo (including medical oversight of interrogation) in Iraq.

Intake processing for prisoners at Camp Muleskinner

Intake processing for prisoners at Camp Muleskinner

Medical and death policies for prisoners at Camp Freedom, Mosul, Iraq, 691-702

Camp Duke Standard Operating Procedures. Policy standards for health care for prisoners.

Various documents pertaining to training personnel for prison operation and medical triage

Medical screening policy for prisoners

Detainee Processing Rules. Includes medical intake questions and sick call schedule.

Medical Transfer Form

Medical History and Physical Form

Routine Medical Exam Form

Medical Transfer Form

Abu Ghraib Interrogation Rules of Engagement. This poster from the interrogation rooms at Abu Ghraib describes preinterrogation medical check and medical monitoring of coercive diets.

Page 1-11 is prisoner intake and medical procedures

530th Military Police Battalion. Criminal Detainee Reception and In-Processing Standard Operating Procedure.  Describes medical intake and Tuberculosis screening at Camp Bucca, Iraq

Confidentiality Policy for Interactions Between Health care Provides and Enemy Persons. Describes duty of clinicians to convey information that they obtain from patients to non-medical personnel with a need to know.

(Beaver, Phifer) - Aggressive Interrogation Techniques for Guantanamo. First memo from Guantanamo proposing medical monitoring of aggressive interrogation and interrogator discretion over requests for medical attention.

Guantanamo Hospital Policy for BSCT (p 751-753)

Guantanamo Hospital Policy for medical records (p 754-762)

Guantanamo Hospital Policy for moving Koran (p 749-750)

Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures.  This document covers medical intake, medical and sick call, suicide and force feeding policies.

Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures--update.  This document covers medical intake, medical and sick call, suicide and force feeding policies.