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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Feb. 18, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6244
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to communications between FBI employees and any other U.S. ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington
June 02, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6249
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington
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
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
Mar. 09, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6086
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the attached draft JTF-GTMO Executive Summary related to the interrogations of ISN (Internment Serial Number) 063. The memorandum details the detainment and interrogation of Detainee Maad al ...
Non-legal Memo, Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Willie T. Hulon, Thomas J. Harrington, Michael P. Kortan, Cassandra M. Chandler, Jay W. Hood
Mohammed al Qahtani
Jan. 06, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6073
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the FBI's lack of involvement in detainee abuse and the claim that the FBI Director did not need to be specifically aware of any abuse allegations.
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington