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.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6087
An chain of emails advising an FBI official what to do with an FBI Special Agent who has been approached by an Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator regarding the capture in Afghanistan of a subject who was later killed reportedly ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Grant Ashley, Mark J. Mershon, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Patrick W. Kelley
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6048
An email thread between FBI officials regarding FBI procedural guidelines on Department of Defense requests to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6045
Email thread between FBI officials regarding a Department of Defense military investigator's request to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths. One email cites that a redacted Special Agent was ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle, Patrick W. Kelley