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 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2878
Email regarding activities at Abu Ghraib Prison. Attachment contains Corrections made to the summary of an interview with Unit Chief about his knowledge of FBI personnel activities at Abu Ghraib Prisons between October and December 2003. The ...
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2875
Email forwarding a list of the U.S. military's approved coercive techniques for use in drafting guidelines for the FBI and a 2002 email to General Miller referencing accusations about interviews/interrogations.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2876
FBI Deleted Page Information sheet referencing a memorandum concerning interview strategies at Guantanamo (2693-2694) and a memorandum concerning legal issues regarding interrogation techniques (2695-2697).
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2873
Email asking for elaboration on a factual issue in an Electronic Communication regarding Guantanamo. The contents are mostly redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Frankie Battle | Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2874
Deleted page information sheet referencing an Electronic Communication from CIRG concerning assistance and challenges during TDY in Guantanamo (2620-2626), some DOD documents (2627-2648); and a draft document (CIRG at Guantanamo to Commanding ...
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2871
Email asking for elaboration on a factual issue in an Electronic Communication regarding Guantanamo. The contents are mostly redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Frankie Battle | Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman
May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2872
Email updating J. Stephen Tidwell and the redacted recipient on General Counsel Valerie Caproni's progress in providing information from Guantanamo interviews to the FBI Director Mueller.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Janice K. Fedarcyk
J. Stephen Tidwell
Janice K. Fedarcyk, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2870
Memorandum from the FBI Counterterrorism Unit and the Military Liaison and Detainee Unit sent internally to the FBI Counterterrorism Unit. The contents are entirely redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2867
The document summarizes FBI work in Afghanistan. FBI duties include: "interview/interrogation [redacted] fingerprinting and photographing and DNA collection), training of DOD personnel in proper collection techniques, participation in [redacted] ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Robert S. Mueller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2868
Deleted page information sheet that references "Detainees 1386-1388" and "Detainees 2605-2607."