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 6118
The document includes information about pages deleted from this production of documents by the FBI as well as which exemptions were used by the FBI to withhold these documents.
Aug. 18, 2011 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6117
The document is a letter from the Records Management Division of the FBI to the National Security Project of the ACLU, regarding the final release of documents related to FOIA request 1129744 - specifically Office of Inspector General SITREPS.
Letter
Alexander Abdo
July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6116
This email provides a consideration that FBI officials reiterate FBI personnel's responsibility to report observations of misconduct prior to their deployment in order to avoid failure to report, and, thus possible misconduct and/or criminal ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr, Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6115
An email where the author, Toni M. Fogle, references the forwarded email to show, "This is how I've asked my guys to handle this situation." The situation being when an Army CID requests interviews with FBI agents.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Donald W. Thompson, Jr
Sept. 13, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6114
The document is an email sent from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service to the FBI, regarding a status report on the Navy abuse investigation and the FBI's inquiry into FBI personnel contact with two redacted detainees.
Apr. 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6113
An email confirming an interview with an Army CID regarding allegations of abuse in Iraq.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Dec. 17, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6112
The document is an NCIS report of investigation, regarding a Request for Assistance (RFA) which tasked NCIS Guantanamo Bay to interview a British citizen detained at Guantanamo. The report includes information about the detainee interview as well ...
Aug. 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6111
An email regarding an FBI agent who had recently reported to Mary F. Rook about possible misconduct from his military deployment in Iraq. The agent ran into another FBI employee who ran an "under the radar" detainee facility in Iraq where ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Mary F. Rook
Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6110
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding an FBI agent who received anonymous verbal harassment for reporting information about detainee abuse to an ongoing IG investigation. This email elaborates on a concern over interference ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Donald W. Thompson, Jr, Toni M. Fogle
Feb. 26, 2010 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6109
The document is a letter from the Department of the Navy to the ACLU National Security Project, regarding an ACLU request for information pertaining to the interrogation of detainees. The request is partially denied and certain portions of the ...
Letter
Jameel Jaffer