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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FBI | ACLU-RDI 2889
Identities of sender and recipient redacted. Sender works for HQ and states that "EAD Pistole wants some talking points by noon today on the quality of DoD's interviews at GTMO. I am going to pull bullets from the attached EC. If you have any ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3055
Answer to a question posed in earlier meeting re: FBI questioning detainee. Contents heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John F. Curran
John F. Curran, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, M. Chris Briese
May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3066
FBI email regarding a proposed Electronic Communication (EC) memo dealing with the treatment of detainees. Heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Cassandra M. Chandler | Gary M. Bald | Eleni P. Kalisch
Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Gary M. Bald, Eleni P. Kalisch, John S. Pistole
May 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3069
Attaches a DOD fact sheet on Guantanamo detainees, a newly released DOD order establishing administrative review for procedures for enemy combatants held in Guantanamo and a DOD news release. Attachments not provided.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Kenneth L. Wainstein, John S. Pistole
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3074

Preparations for The Director's Senate Judiciary hearing on 5/20/04 Concerning the Treatment of Prisoners, i.e. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Kenneth L. Wainstein
Valerie E. Caproni
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole, Eleni P. Kalisch, Paul K. Martin, Frank Wolf
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3075
This email contains a request for a list of personnel who were deployed to Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly "that prison" in Iraq in late 2003. A list is provided, but is heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Gary M. Bald | Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Arthur M. Cummings, II, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
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
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3092
Emails concerning a report of possible detainee abuse at Temporary Holding Facility (THF) 6-26 outstation. Notes that detainee arrived from Temporary Holding Facility with marks (burns) on him that seemed suspicious. When questioned about the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Gary M. Bald
Valerie E. Caproni | John S. Pistole | Bruce J. Gebhardt | Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3096
FBI email attaching report that provides details from an individual who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Iraq.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3098
An unidentified individual informed the FBI Sacramento Field Office of numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees he/she observed in Iraq. The individual described that such abuses included strangulation, beatings, placement ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Physical assault, General, Other