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.
An email regarding the interview of an FBI Special Agent by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service/IG as an witness to abuse of a detainee by Special Forces in Afghanistan. The agent did not witness any abuse and provided a statement and other ...
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a response to a search request to re-review a list of 263 cases in order to ascertain if any of them were regarding detainee abuse allegations.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether FBI agents who were interviewed concerning detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay were advised of their rights as well as the fulfillment of document requests from the Office of Inspector General.
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 ...
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the confirmation of FBI's awarness of all detainee abuse allegations against FBI employees. The email details two such allegations, one which was investigated by IIS and the other by OIG.
An email regarding allegations of misconduct against two FBI agents. During an interview with one of the agents, they stated that there were, "inhumane conditions at the Baghdad detention facility... Although I only personally observed this abuse ...
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of a full investigation into the FBI's handling of allegations of detainee abuse, including any FBI personnel who may have either witnessed or ...
An email, including forwarded emails, regarding the legality of another agency requesting to interview FBI personnel. The author of one of the forwarded emails states that whenever this type of request is made, both the agent and FBI are to be ...
An email, including a chain of forwarded emails, concerning an Naval Criminal Investigative Service interview of a Las Vegas FBI Special Agent regarding an incident in which the FBI agent is alleged to have been present during an interview ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
An chain of emails advising an FBI official what to do with an FBI Special Agent who has been approached by an Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator regarding the capture in Afghanistan of a subject who was later killed reportedly ...
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 ...
An email thread between FBI officials regarding FBI procedural guidelines on Department of Defense requests to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths.
Email thread between FBI officials regarding a Department of Defense military investigator's request to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths. One email cites that a redacted Special Agent was ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a request from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) for a list of names of FBI personnel who served at Abu Ghuraib Prison as a part of abuse allegation investigations.
An email which includes three forwarded emails about who has "ownership" of the Army investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse; an email quotes, "What a mess." The third forwarded email concerns protocols about Army CID interviewing FBI ...
An email, which includes two forwarded emails, between two FBI officials regarding detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The forwarded emails discuss the possible procedural paths to take in a situation where six reports from FBI personnel who were ...
Two forwarded emails documenting the redacted author receiving a letter from Army CID requesting a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. This request is part of an investigation of allegations of abuse against detainees ...
An email discussing the Army's requests for an FBI internal report describing abuses witnessed by the FBI and a list of FBI employees who performed interrogations at Abu Gharib. The NY Times mentioned the internal report in an article on ...
An email including two forwarded emails about the, "potential issues... regarding employee rights and liabilities," of a previous handling of an Army request for a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. One of the email ...
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding verbal harassment an FBI agent had received from an anonymous caller for providing reporting to a colonel at FBIHQ regarding their knowledge in an IG investigation about UCMJ misconduct in ...
Concerns discussing an update on Guantanamo with SC Fogle. The email states "where are we with this? Do we need to get Mr. Thompson involved? I'd like to get these interviews done."
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. The email shows two FBI officials agreeing to fly him ...
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. The officials seem confused by the jurisdictional lines ...
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 ...
Emails discuss the submission of documents detailing specific information concerning [redacted]. One email reads " this is what started the whole thing."
The emails include a sworn statement.
Contents redacted.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
An email including a forwarded chain of emails regarding FBI agents who have been listed as witnesses in an investigation surrounding allegations of prisoner abuse. The chain shows confusion as to whether or not the agents participated in ...
Email is forwarding information re: Army CID Request for Interview of FBI personnel. The author states that "We will not open an Internal Investigation matter case on them unless we receive some evidence that they [FBI personnel] were involved in ...
An email regarding a forwarded letter. The letter states that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is conducting an investigation into allegations that two FBI agents were involved in the assault of a civilian detained at the Baghdad ...