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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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 ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Steven C. McCraw | Toni M. Fogle
Steven C. McCraw, Toni M. Fogle
FBI memo providing the Washington Field Office with an update on an investigation of abuse of detainees in Iraq.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner
FBI memo providing the Washington Field Office with an update on an investigation of abuse of detainees in Iraq.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner
FBI memo providing the Washington Field Office with an update on an investigation of the 800th Military Police abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Alex J. Turner
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner
Emails between FBI and Alex J. Turner re: Your Request. The author states that they have experienced "what I would descnbe as unfavorable contact with the EDVA regarding Washington Field Office's (WFO) failure to more aggressively address pending ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Alex J. Turner
Alex J. Turner, Charles J. Cunningham , Robert A. Spencer
Email from an FBI official requesting Charles Cunningham give an "update on the Iraq investigation you gave to AJ Turner" and is followed with a request by Charles Cunningham to another FBI official to be updated on the matter every two (2) weeks.
May 18, 2005
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner

Email to Alex Turner as a Heads-up on Public Corruption Case.

May 18, 2005
Email
Alex J. Turner
Alex J. Turner, Charles J. Cunningham
FBI memo on an Impersonation Matter. Specifics on the matter are redacted.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Arthur M. Cummings, II, Willie T. Hulon
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Emails to Charles Cunningham re: Abu Ghraib Prision Case. Contents redacted.
May 18, 2005
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham
FBI Fax cover sheet. Document not attached.
May 18, 2005
Letter
Laura M. Laughlin
Laura M. Laughlin, John Klein, Patrick Rowan, Jennifer Levy, Brian Murtagh, Jr.
FBI email to Alex Turner, cc: Charles Cunningham. Mostly redacted.
May 18, 2005
Email
Alex J. Turner
Alex J. Turner, Charles J. Cunningham
This is an internal FBI memo listing the current cases and status. Heavily redacted.
FBI memo states "Well those are my thoughts and I hope they are of some use Feel free to call if you have any questions about this. Thank you." The memo is otherwise completely redacted.
Emails between Valerie Caproni, Eleni Kalisch and Others re: Potential New Iraq Public Corruption Case
FBI Memo re: To document the background, plan and objectives for the scheduled deployment of FBI personnel to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to request CTD approval of the documented travel; Identify, acquire and install the technology necessary to ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Marcus C. Thomas, John F. Curran, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Margaret R. Gulotta
Email discusses meeting to be scheduled re: Combatant Status Review Tribunal
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Frankie Battle, James M. McGarrah, Paul Clement
Ed Lueckenhoff sent an email stating that "I have been told that all interrogation techniques previously authorized by the Executive Order are still on the table but that certain techniques can only be used if very high-level authority is ...
Edward H. Lueckenhoff's email detailes the problems at Abu Ghurayb prison and that he met with AUSAs Dana Biehl and Bruce Pagel who visited the prison. He states that AUSA Pagel advised that he [Pagel] was aware of the allegations of abuse at the ...
Valerie Capronie askes Michael A. Mason if there were any reports of Military officials taking "kick-backs". He replies "The latter referrals (re corruption) came via a telephone call Nothing on paper yet, although we have asked for the ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Michael A. Mason
Valerie E. Caproni, Michael A. Mason
Email is a follow-up on a report of cases involving the UN Oil for Food program. Chris Swecker replys and states: "They are standing down on opening a case and are conferring with the military".
May 18, 2005
Email
Laura M. Laughlin
Valerie E. Caproni
Laura M. Laughlin, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker
Emails between Valerie Caproni, Marion Bowman and Others re: Torture Memo Found on the Internet. No attachment or content.
May 18, 2005
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni
Memo is concerning a potential cases of: 1) detainee abuse involving the rape of an un-named detainee; and 2) Bribes being paid to an un-named person in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Alex J. Turner
Sexual, Physical assault
Email details four (4) incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo: Three (3) unspecified; and one (1) involving dogs used against a detainee.
Email from Mark Mershon alerts Chris Swecker about a report of an unspecified matter of detainee abuse.
Email is to report a serious report of Detainee abuse. No details given.
And FBI email stating that members of the 78th Military Police detachment advised that a detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison alleged that on or about June 17, 2004 he was abused in a non-specified way. The detainee was initially detained in February ...
Emails between Gary Bald, Valerie Caproni, Edward Lueckenhoff and Others concerning a report that a detainee walked in to Temporary Holding Facility in Iraq, called 6-26 (TH 6-26), with burn marks upon him. The detainee stated he had been ...
Cover Sheet re: Reprocessed Documents. No other content. No documents attached.
Email discusses a New York Times front page article describing the role of the FBI in Iraq after the turnover of sovereignty. The email specifically disputes that Saddam is being held as a "High Value Detainee" by the FBI. It states that he is ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, George W. Bush

Emails between Frankie Battle, MC Briese, Valerie Caproni, TJ Harrington re: DOD Guidelines when serving in Iraq. Several FBI agents who served are mentioned.

Human Rights Watch claims that the detention facilities being operated by the CIA are un-lawful and requests to visit the detention facilities in Afghanistan. CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller replies that the CIA is operating lawfully and ...

Emails between Valerie Caproni to T.J. Harrington and Otrhers re: Instructions for FBI Interrogators at Guantanamo. The emails goes in to detail on how FBI agents serving at Guantanamo should conduct themselves and not deviate from Bureau ...

CIA press release States that May 2004 New Yorker story on a "DOD/CIA program to abuse and humiliate Iraqi prisoners" is "fundamentally wrong" and that spokesman has no awareness of CIA officials who could have confirmed ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Bill Harlow

Senator Cornyn fowarded correspondence he recieved from one of his constituents asking: "I read a story about 3 CIA personnel who may have killed three prisoners. The Agency submitted their reports to the Justice Dept. Interrogations of ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI memo for SAC Stephen R. Wiley concerning issues at Guantanamo. The memo gives details about the FBI's BAU witnessing detainee abuse by DOD representatives that included: Sleep depravation; use of loud music/bright lights; and "growling" dogs. ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Stephen R. Wiley
An FBI agent who served at Guantanamo is responding to an EC sent to NCAVC, dated March 25, 2003. The agent states that the current email was on behalf of themself and another agent, and was also being sent "to every BAU SSA who spent their ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle
FBI Memo: Contents completly redacted.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Emai to Marion Bowman re: Guantanamo. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Frankie Battle, Stephen R. Wiley
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Email from and to redacted re: Legal Issues re: Guantanamo. Contents redacted.
Contents completly redacted.
Contents redacted, except for personal note on the passing of a former instructor at the Quantico training facility.
Memo is an interrogation plan designed by SAs for Detainee [redacted], the memo's contents are redacted. The only information un-redacted are the paragraph headings, which include, Introduction, Behavioral Characteristics, and Recommendations. ...
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.