American Civil Liberties Union

There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today, as illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security.


Military Commissions Act

Freedom Files - Season 2
Ideological Exclusion

ACLU NewsfeedsACLU News Feed
ACLU Blog
ACLU Podcasts
Documents Released by the ACLU on 5/14/2008

A document listing at least four prisoner deaths that were the subject of Navy Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) investigations, including new material on the Hatab case.
> Hatab (DOD059598)

A draft document apparently prepared for the signature of Brittan Mallow, who was commander of the Criminal Investigation Task Force at Guantánamo. In a previously released document dated December 2, 2002, Mallow instructs his unit to not participate in questionable interrogation methods being employed at Guantánamo. The attached memo appears to have been drafted for September 2002, and was intended to provide additional guidance to CITF agents on permissible interrogation methods. We do not know if it was ever finalized or circulated.
> CITF (199 DOD 059617-059618)

Other Documents Released:



Click to show/hide issues list
Your Local ACLUcongressional scorecardmultimediaforumspublicationssupport usstorecontact