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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July 11, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6304
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a request that FBI agents who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo fill out surveys on whether they witnessed abuse of detainees.
Dec. 18, 2009
Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
July 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6121
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding possible allegations of abuse being made against FBI agents by the military.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw
May 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3369
This memo also includes a table and emails. The general synopsis of the memo is it provides the statement of an SA's observations while at Abu Graib Prison. In the memo, SA states that during his time at the "Abu Graib Prison his role was to only ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Raymond Mey, Monte C. Strait, Michael J. Folmar, Barbara Wells, Russell D. Robinson, Paula J. Wendell , Amy Jo Lyons, Randall D. Parsons, Steven C. McCraw, Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington, M. Chris Briese
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3073
M. Chris Briese sent an email stating "All, The Director wanted to know (by the end of the day) if anyone from the FBI had first-hand knowledge of any abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. If so, how did we handle it. I know that we have been made aware ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
M. Chris Briese
Edward H. Lueckenhoff | Thomas V. Fuentes | Chris Swecker | Frankie Battle | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
M. Chris Briese, Chris Swecker, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Thomas V. Fuentes, Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3081
Email details FBI investigation of mistreatment, abuse or "highly aggressive" treatment of detainees in Iraq that are known or observed by FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo. The email states that fourteen (14) agents have witnessed ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Patrick W. Kelley, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Patrick Leahy, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Hector M. Pesquera
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3113

Emails between m Valerie E. Caproni to to Steven C. McGraw re: List of agents at Abu Ghraib Prison October 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003. Heavily redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
M. Chris Briese | Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle | Marion E. Bowman | John F. Curran | Steven C. McCraw
Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, John F. Curran, Marion E. Bowman
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3283
Email from Steven C. McCraw seeks response from employees who served at GTMO after 9/11/01 re: whether they saw aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques inconsistent with FBI policy/guidelines. This email was subsequently ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw, Thomas J. Harrington
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6059
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a Washington Post report in which it was alleged that the FBI was involved in abuses at the Abu Ghuraib Prison.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller | Cassandra M. Chandler | Eleni P. Kalisch | Kenneth L. Wainstein | Steven C. McCraw | Bruce J. Gebhardt | M. Chris Briese | Thomas J. Harrington
M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Thomas J. Harrington, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Steven C. McCraw, Bruce J. Gebhardt