State Department Office of War Crimes Issues tasker to compare federal district courts, U.S. military courts, and military commissions for OLC review and for discussion at September 26, 2001 meeting

In 2003, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records relating to the abuse and torture of prisoners in U.S. detention centers overseas. Since then, the government has released more than 100,000 pages. These documents show both that hundreds of prisoners were tortured in the custody of the CIA and Department of Defense, and that the torture policies were devised and developed at the highest levels of the Bush administration.