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. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6255
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding FBI involvement in overseas interrogations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Oct. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6256
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the drafting and provision of an outline of issues, including requests for FBI agents to be interviewed to to testify regarding their participation in detainee interrogations.
Oct. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6257
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the decision of federal judge Kollar-Kotelly that terror suspects held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay must be allowed to meet with lawyers and that their conversations cannot be monitored.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Oct. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6258
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding advice related to FBI personnel conduct in extraterritorial situations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6259
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding release procedures for BL #'s 28, 32, 33, and 34 and includes questions to be resolved about the process. The document also includes information on an NCIS investigation into allegations of abuse ...
Nov. 13, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6260
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding contacts at the Department of Defense and the National Security council for the delivery of an Amnesty International report.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6272
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6273
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. The document includes concerns from FBI agents about participating in harsh Department ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, John S. Pistole
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6276
The document is an internal FBI email with attachments that include a description of interrogation technique concerns raised to Commanding General Miller as well as an outline of approved coercive techniques used by the military.
June 15, 2011
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Mohammed al Qahtani
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6277
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the lack of written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni