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.
This email includes a chain of forwarded emails expressing an Army CID's desire to interview FBI special agents who are witnesses in an investigation surrounding allegations of prisoner abuse. The prisoner alleges to have been tortured in "an act ...
The document is an Operations Order drafted by the FBI Counterterrorism Division (CTD) to support the CTD's plan for the integration of FBI assets with the Department of Defense in Iraq to exploit Iraqi Intelligence Services (IIS) personnel, ...
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the Counterterrorism Division to the Director's Office, regarding a request for FBI executive management to approve an Operations Order that details mission operations and requirements for ...
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 ...
The document is a notice describing an individual last seen in the Fallujah, Iraq area who is wanted for questioning. The document also includes an email about a lost officer who is in Fallujah.
The document is an internal Department of Defense email, regarding a lack of protected communication that is hindering the process of true assessment at the BIAP facility.
The document is a form to request and authorize temporary duty travel for Department of Defense personnel, filled out for a redacted entity's service in Bishek, Kyrgyzstan, Bagram, Afghanistan, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The document is a series of documents related to the service of a Major deployed as the Officer in Charge of the DH HAT Team. The document includes a personal letter from a member of the OIC's team, certificate of release/discharge from active ...
This email, including a forwarded chain of emails, says that the CTD, or perhaps OGC, should advise personnel pre-deployment of their responsibility to report actions that may be a violation of law and/or prescribed procedure. File name: ...
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 clears up the identity of the agent.
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 ...
The document is a mostly redacted cover sheet followed by a CIRG after-action report for the FBI deployment to Quandahar, Afghanistan from 12/11/2001 through 02/11/2002 in support of the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) sponsored by the U.S. ...
The document is a memorandum sent from Miami to the FBI Counterterrorism Division, relating reports of several Guantanamo Bay detainee interrogation interviews. The memorandum also includes a schedule of future detainee interviews.
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 complaint by an FBI agent concerning detainee ...
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of the name of the agent who stated that there was an executive order dealing with treatment of Iraq prisoners as well as a document that discusses DoD interrogators misrepresenting ...
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 ...
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 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.
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).
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 ...
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.
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 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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Chain of emails discussing whether or not FBI agents receive Department of Justice lawyer representation during interviews with non-FBI personnel when the potential of being charged with criminal responsibility exists. The inquiring FBI official ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...