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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Oct. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6098
An email sent to Executive Assistant Directors and Assistant Directors at FBIHQ asking for materials relevant to the ACLU's FOIA request of documents/records created from 9/12/2004 to 5/25/2004 that pertain to the treatment of detainees held ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, John S. Pistole, Jonathan I. Solomon, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, David W. Szady, Chris Swecker, John S. Hooks Jr., J. Stephen Tidwell, Jana D. Monroe
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6097
An email included a forwarded chain of emails regarding the protocol for reporting in Afghanistan. A Special Agent may or may not have been a witness to the death of a detainee and had been interviewed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Warren T. Bamford
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6096
An email chain that again references an FBI agent who was present in Afghanistan during a detainee death and faced possible Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigation.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon
Mar. 30, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6095
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a visit to Guantanamo and tour of Camp Delta by four staffers from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6094
A chain of emails discussing the possible investigation by a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator of a FBI agent who had been present in Afghanistan when a prisoner died. The agent filled out an action report upon return, and ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Mark J. Mershon, Grant Ashley, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, J. Stephen Tidwell
Mar. 23, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6093
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Washington Post article on FBI detainee records, specifically that the FBI release was not reviewed by the DoJ.
Email
Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Valerie E. Caproni
Mar. 14, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6092
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of an investigation of detainee abuse, stating that the Director's Office has instructed INSD and OCG to ensure the accounting and uniformity of all ...
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle
Mar. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6091
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of detainee related documents under the ACLU FOIA request.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Mar. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6090
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the appropriate procedures for FBI divisions to follow when producing documents for the Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.
Email
John S. Pistole
Mar. 10, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6089
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of additional records that fall within the parameters of the ACLU FOIA search, specifically that such records shall be processed and accounted for in the FOIA litigation as a group.