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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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 release of detainee related documents under the ACLU FOIA request.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
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
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.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding draft appropriate procedures for FBI divisions to follow when producing documents for the Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the attached draft JTF-GTMO Executive Summary related to the interrogations of ISN (Internment Serial Number) 063. The memorandum details the detainment and interrogation of Detainee Maad al ...
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the ACLU's FOIA litigation related to the treatment of foreign detainees and the release of relevant FBI documents and emails.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole
The document is an internal FBI email regarding Gary Bald's answer for the FBI's data request on detainee abuse, as initially requested by the DoJ. Gary Bald denies witnessing any unusual interview techniques during his visits to Iraq and ...
Email
Gary M. Bald
Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a call from a redacted person related to access to FBI documents detailing arguable mistreatment of detainees by DoD employees or subcontractors.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a 02/20/05 Department of Defense request for FBI documents related to detainee abuse allegations.
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a Q&A attachment that Eleni Kalisch has made changes to.
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Eleni P. Kalisch
The document is an internal FBI email regarding talking points about open FBI investigations relative to detainee abuse.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Eleni P. Kalisch
Valerie E. Caproni, Eleni P. Kalisch
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a meeting at the Department of Justice to discuss issues relative to the FBI mission overseas, including detainee interrogations.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the confirmation of FBI's awarness of all detainee abuse allegations against FBI employees. The email states that all relevant information has been reviewed and it has been confirmed that there were ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
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.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the FBI's lack of involvement in detainee abuse and the claim that the FBI Director did not need to be specifically aware of any abuse allegations.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the procedure used for handling abuse allegations made by detainees. These allegations are handed over to the Department of Defense for investigation.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the preparation of a chronology of events with respect to FBI involvement with the issue of treatment/mistreatment of detainees.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of General Inspector and the Department of Defense's search for and collection of documents related to detainees and whether the various divisions were instructed to copy the Inspection ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Redacted
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley
The document is an internal FBI email regarding potential conflicts that may arise for FBI agents in divulging information about their time at any venues controlled by the U.S. military at which detainees have been or were being held. The ...
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 employees' observations and concerns about the treatment ...
The document includes portions of the transcript from the SASC hearing with Generals Craddock, Schmidt, and Furlow, regarding allegations of the abusive treatment of detainees and the Department of Defense's role in investigating such claims.
Interview (Transcript)
Randall Mark Schmidt, John T. Furlow, Bantz J. Craddock
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 ...
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a detainee's allegation of experiencing abusive treatment from two FBI agents in Afghanistan.
The document is a redacted internal FBI email regarding allegations of abuse by private contractors at the Abu Ghurayb Prison and other detention facilities in Iraq.
The document is a redacted internal FBI email sent from Valerie Caproni to FBI Director Robert Mueller regarding EC detainees.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a Washington Post report in which it was alleged that the FBI was involved in abuses at the Abu Ghuraib Prison.
The document is series of an internal FBI emails regarding whether any FBI personnel had firsthand knowledge of any abuse of detainees at Abu Ghuraib Prison. The emails conclude that no FBI personnel had any such knowledge.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the advice of rights issues at Guantanamo Bay, specifically the possibility of policy changes.
Email
Marion E. Bowman
The document is a memorandum of understanding between the FBI and two redacted parties regarding the parties' desire to physically collate [redacted] automated biometric identification system within the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services ...
The document is a memorandum of understanding between the FBI and two redacted parties regarding the exchange of fingerprints and other biographical data for military detainees and known or suspected terrorists. The memorandum also outlines the ...
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.
Email
[Redacted] (INSD) (FBI)
[Redacted] (OGC) (FBI)
Toni M. Fogle
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 allegations of misconduct against FBI employees due to the ...
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 FBI's initiation and conduct of special inquiries and ...
The document is a memorandum including the minutes from the SAAC Director's Advisory Committees Meeting held from March 21 through 25, 2005. The notes include information received from noted speakers/presenters and cover numerous other areas.
The document includes notes from FBI Director Robert Mueller's meeting with the SAAC Executive Council during the conference held at the FBI Headquarters from September 28 through 30, 2004. The notes detail the Council's concerns and appreciation.
Notes
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole
The document is a memorandum including the minutes from the SAAC Executive Council Meeting held at the FBI Headquarters from September 28 through 30, 2004. The document includes information provided by every speaker at the conference.
The document is a memorandum regarding Iraq issues and lessons learned. The topics covered in the memorandum include mandatory after action debriefs, operation of sources overseas, coercive interrogations, and rules of engagement in Iraq.
The document is a detailed meeting agenda for the SAAC Executive Council Conference held at the FBI Headquarters from September 28 through 30, 2004.
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically the 2003-2004 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the FBI and another ...
The document is a news article written by NBC News Correspondent Campbell Brown regarding possible prisoner abuse at Battlefield Interrogation Facilities operated by Delta Force in Iraq.
Other
Campbell Brown | NBC News
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Barbara G. Fast
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General for FBI documents regarding detainee issues, specifically minutes, notes, memoranda, and other documents from any ...
The document is a worksheet that can be used to determine a detainee's status, specifically whether or not the detainee is entitled to be treated as an Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW).
The document is a memorandum from the Department of Defense Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP) for all service members in the force, regarding proper detainee treatment.
The document is a letter from the Defense Intelligence Agency, regarding the service and honorable discharge of a Marine whose name has been redacted.
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to the Executive Secretariat, regarding overdue correspondence and Senator Feinstein's 2004 letter.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a request for any letters or documents provided by the FBI in response to a letter from Senator Feinstein to Director Mueller concerning documents that had been released to the ACLU.
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's review of the detainee issues and its request for documents pertaining to possible detainee abuse.
Email
FBI General Counsel
Valerie E. Caproni
The document is a cover sheet from the Defense Intelligence Agency, but all other information has been redacted.
The document is a memorandum summarizing the results of the 10/26/04 debriefing of a previous Iraq Deployment On-Scene Commander (OSC) and two Deputy On-Scene Commanders and recommendations for future Iraq deployments. The topics of discussion ...