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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Jan. 26, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6205
An email that provides guidance on forwarding requests for interviews of FBI Special Agents regarding allegations of detainee abuse or deaths.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Patrick W. Kelley, Toni M. Fogle, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Jan. 28, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6237
An email regarding a final timeline relating to detainee issues. Valerie E. Caproni jokes about their "malfeasance."
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas, Patrick W. Kelley
Mar. 14, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6092
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of an investigation of detainee abuse, stating that the Director's Office has instructed INSD and OCG to ensure the accounting and uniformity of all ...
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle
Feb. 23, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6081
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a 02/20/05 Department of Defense request for FBI documents related to detainee abuse allegations.
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley
Mar. 09, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6069
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of General Inspector and the Department of Defense's search for and collection of documents related to detainees and whether the various divisions were instructed to copy the Inspection ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
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Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley