The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding Department of Justice protocol for the investigation of terrorism overseas. The memorandum includes information about the standards for the handling of a criminal case in a battlefield zone, but is almost entirely redacted.
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Subject: -DOJ Protocol for Investigation of Terrorism Overseas.
. Date: February 22, 2005
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This is a privileged FBI legal communication and should not be. distributes outside OGC without permission
This document purports to set standards for the handling of a criminal case in a battlefield zone,.
• but it is neither- exhaustive of the techniques criminal investigators can use nor reflective of the
- conditions for which agents train. • The protocol can set a false hurdle at trial for the failure to
follow. its prescriptions. There are no investigative recommendations in the protocol in which
S/As have not been trained or which are not already in the MIOG.
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