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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Nov. 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6343
The document is an email, regarding Detainee #63 and setting up a meeting about the FBI's involvement in the detainee's interrogation.
June 15, 2011
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
| ACLU-RDI 6344
The document is an email, regarding the interrogation plan for Detainee #63. The email includes information about FBI concerns about the plan and DHS methods.
June 15, 2011
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
Nov. 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6345
The document is an email, regarding a brief requested from HQ.
July 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6346
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a letter to be sent by the FBI Office of General Counsel to the DoD detailing previously unreported detainee abuse allegations. In one email, an agent, whose name is redacted, speaks passionately ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, J. Stephen Tidwell
Jan. 14, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6347
The document is an email, regarding an investigation by Brigadier General John Furlow into allegations of abuse by military interrogators, and includes a section about interviews of FBI agents.
June 15, 2011
Email
John T. Furlow, J. Stephen Tidwell, Craig C. King
Jan. 14, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6348
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding military investigators reviewing allegations of abuse against military personnel and their requested interviews of FBI personnel.
May 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6349
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update about Valerie Caproni's interview of a redacted entity related to his observations from Guantanamo Bay.
Oct. 29, 2004 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6350
The document is a memorandum sent from the Office of Oversight and Review in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to the FBI Inspection Division, regarding a request for preliminary information by the OIG. The information will be used to ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carol F. Ochoa
Charlene B. Thornton
Charlene B. Thornton, Carol F. Ochoa
Nov. 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6351
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the fulfillment of an Office of Inspector General request for documents related to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghuraib Prison.
June 15, 2011
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell, Warren T. Bamford
Nov. 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6352
The document is an email regarding the scheduling for a debriefing by FBI special agents related to their Guantanamo Bay experiences.
June 15, 2011
Email
Frankie Battle