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.
The document is a memorandum that includes information on military commissions, four Guantanamo detainees, FBI cooperation, and unresolved issues, including transportation and witness preparation.
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the collection and compilation of any and all Counterterrorism Division documents related to detainees at Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and particularly documentation of any abuse of detainees ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding constitutional issues overseas - specifically the application of the 4th and 5th Amendments to military detainees.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update on Guantanamo legal processes and the authorization to continue detainee interrogation under Article 17 of the Geneva Convention of the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the best course of action to be taken with regards to a detainee. The decision reached is to have the detainee shifted over to Abu Ghuraib Prison.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the drafting and provision of an outline of issues, including requests for FBI agents to be interviewed to to testify regarding their participation in detainee interrogations.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the decision of federal judge Kollar-Kotelly that terror suspects held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay must be allowed to meet with lawyers and that their conversations cannot be monitored.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding release procedures for BL #'s 28, 32, 33, and 34 and includes questions to be resolved about the process. The document also includes information on an NCIS investigation into allegations of abuse ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding contacts at the Department of Defense and the National Security council for the delivery of an Amnesty International report.
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
The document includes several sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on full-field terrorism enterprise investigations, publications of terrorism enterprise organizations, and the collection ...
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on investigations of government employees, investigations of FBI employee misconduct, and administrative inquiries.
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on the authority of a special agent, investigative responsibility, and investigative authority and the First Amendment.
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. The document includes concerns from FBI agents about participating in harsh Department ...
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the treatment of prisoners and detainees and includes further clarifications from the Office of General Counsel on the subject. The memorandum reiterates that FBI guidelines do not allow for ...
The document is an internal FBI email with attachments that include a description of interrogation technique concerns raised to Commanding General Miller as well as an outline of approved coercive techniques used by the military.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the lack of written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy. The email includes information about an EC written by the FBI ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the dissemination of information and intelligence gathered from the interrogation of HVD-1 (Saddam Hussein).
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the procedure by which to document interviews with HVD-1 (Saddam Hussein). Significant portions of the document are redacted.
The document is an internal FBI memorandum from EAD John Pistole to the Counterterrorism Division, regarding the request of HVD-1's (Saddam Hussein) Interrogation Team to question the subject without reading him the Miranda rights, to videotape ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the rights granted to EPWs under the Geneva III Convention should the detaining power choose to institute judicial proceedings (criminal prosecution).
The document is a monograph written by the U.S. Department of Justice's Counterterrorism Section on the fundamental principles governing extraterritorial prosecutions, including jurisdiction, venue, and procedural rights. The monograph includes ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether the FBI's operations in Iraq were primarily for intelligence-gathering or also for the collection of evidence for prosecutions. The email also includes information on a case in which an FBI ...
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on policies for the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense related to the investigation and prosecution of criminal ...
The document is an internal FBI memorandum that outlines the actions taken by a redacted entity for a number of different projects, including the Iran Unit, Counterintelligence Division, and the Iraq/Syria/Libya Unit.
The document is a memorandum from the Department of Defense, regarding approved methods of interrogation. The document includes information on documents related to the Administration's interrogation policies, a congressional subpoena proposed by ...
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the detention and interrogation of detainee Mohameou Ould Slahi. The document is heavily redacted.
The document is an internal FBI memorandum,outlining administrative policy changes to the Office of Professional Responsibility's (OPR) and the Inspection Division's (INSD) Delegated Investigation/Adjudication (DIA) program.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the focus, scope, and procedure of military interviews being conducted of FBI personnel who reported witnessing aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo.
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.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update to a special inquiry conducted of FBI personnel who served in some capacity at the Guantanamo Bay facility about any observations of aggressive treatment of detainees by either Department ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an FBI personnel's conversation with Vice Admiral Church about the FBI's mission in Guantanamo, the FBI's close coordination with JTF-GTMO, and interagency interview coordination.
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding incidents at Guantanamo Bay that are being reported. The incidents include questionable interrogation techniques and the presence of a prostitute at Camp Delta.
The document is an internal FBI memorandum for special agents in charge, regarding the guidelines for conducting FBI investigations overseas. The memorandum includes information on Legal Attaches ("Legats"), leads in foreign countries, ...
The document is the FBI Office of General Counsel response to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General request for additional information, regarding supervisory employees in the National Security Law Branch and Counterterrorism ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques. The author of the email, Marion Bowman, states that the FBI does not approve of the harsh interrogation techniques being used ...