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 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3140
Memo from Inspection to Counterterrorism re: Inquiry re Activities of FBI Personnel at Abu Ghraib Prison during Oct 2003 - December 2003. the memo states "Synopsis: Provid e summa of the results of 14 interviews conducted to date by the summary ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3141
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3142
Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Feb. 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3143
Contains multiple EC's re: Fingerprinting, photographing and updating records to reflect detainees who were captured in Afghanistan at the Bagram Collection Point and repatriated or transferred to/from Guantanamo, including transfer to Riyadh, ...
Apr. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3144
Includes transfer to Bagram, Afghanistan; Russia; Denmark; Pakistan; Turkey; Iraq; Spain; Great Britain (names redacted, but repatriation/transfer status and related date provided).
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3146
Email requests FBI employees who served at Guantanamo, and did not observation of aggressive treatment of detainees to submit an EC documenting the negitive response.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3147
Responds to inquiry. Author observed no aggressive treatment of detainees between 4/16/2003-4/18/2003
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3148
Responds to request from Section Chief to Unit Chiefs on 9/23/2004, stating that all FBIHQ divisions are requested to search e-mails, work copies and investigative notes in connection with the FOIA application. Lists responsive documents.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3149
Responding to email concerning detainees. The memo author states they did not witness or participate in aggressive treatment, interrogations or interviews of military detainees at Guantanamo that was not consistent with FBI policy.
July 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3150
[Redacted] did not witness or participate in aggressive treatment, interrogations or interviews of GTMO military detainees that was not consistent with FBI policy.