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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May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3076
Email is to prepare the Director for an up-coming congressional hearing on Torture allegations, and if anyone was made aware of any such allegations. Bowman states that the matter was sent to SAC in Miami and CT. In addition it states that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Kenneth L. Wainstein
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3079

This email is collecting a list of FBI agents who toured through Iraq in 2003, and obtaining statments from them concerning their understanding of FBI interrogation procedures for detainees.

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni | Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Thomas M. Powers, Thomas V. Fuentes, Chris Swecker, Edwin L. Worthington, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Marion E. Bowman, Michael J. Folmar
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
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3117

Email between Valerie Caproni, M.C. Briese and T.J. Harrington re: Names of agents who've been TDY'd to Iraq. Email also mentions a need to know the names of all agents who conducted interrogations at Abu Ghurayb, Iraq during October 1, ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington | M. Chris Briese | Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3118
Emails between [redacted party], Valerie Caproni and John Curran re: Interrogation. Mentions a NY Times article discussing Steve Cambone's testimony that DoD guidelines permit the forced disrobing of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Stephen A. Cambone
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3216
This is a note to an SSA stating "The purpose of this note is to present you with a thought/proposal which I hope you will pass up the chain for consideration in the Civil Rights Unit, if something similar is not already underway." The notes ...
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3317

Emails between Frankie Battle, MC Briese, Valerie Caproni, TJ Harrington re: DOD Guidelines when serving in Iraq. Several FBI agents who served are mentioned.

May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle
M. Chris Briese | Valerie E. Caproni | Thomas J. Harrington
Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Michael J. Folmar, Thomas M. Powers, Thomas V. Fuentes, Chris Swecker, Edwin L. Worthington, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3329
Valerie Capronie askes Michael A. Mason if there were any reports of Military officials taking "kick-backs". He replies "The latter referrals (re corruption) came via a telephone call Nothing on paper yet, although we have asked for the ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Michael A. Mason
Valerie E. Caproni, Michael A. Mason
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3507
Emails are redacted, unredacted language discusses testimony from Steve Cambone where he discusses forced dis-robing of Guantanamo detainees.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Valerie E. Caproni | John F. Curran
Stephen A. Cambone, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3512
Emails discuss "Iraq guidance" and meeting with the new deputy of OSD/OGC.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman