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 email states that because of "issues that have developed regarding "interrogations" and detainee handling techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the developing interest in interrogation techniques at Guantanamo" the BAU members must ...
The email states "After we got off the phone, I found the attached email which we sent to General Miller last year. Also, there is a copy of the miltary's use of approved coercive techniques which are quite different I am sure from the Bureau ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Other
Attaches "an outline of the coervive techniques in the military's interviewing toolkit. I will also send our Interview Plan for Detainee [redacted]. When I return to D.C. I will bring a copy of the military's interview Plan?. You won't believe it!"
FBI Memo re: To Provide Counterterrorism and CIRG Divisions with a Progress Report. Encloses FBI team "Interrogation Strategy". Document heavily redacted.
Email states recient new article on CNN reported Gen. Karpinsky saying that Gen. Miller wanted to "Gitmoize" Abu Ghraib. The email also refers to article in Stars and Stripes news paper where Gen. Miller had said he believed in "rapport-building ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski
The email provides and update on the team's re-orientation upon arriving back in Iraq. It states the team briefed MPs on how important the MP's were, and preparations for a visit from the International Red Cross/Crescent.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
M. Chris Briese
Frankie Battle
M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
Describes logistics and expected outcome of upcoming training workshop by the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)on interviewing extremists.
This email discusses logistics for upcoming Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) training workship on interviewing extremists.
Email to Frankie Battle in response to an email sent by the NCAVC. The author states that this email contains two (2) EC's and they have sent the "main email to both the Miami Division and Counterterrorism". The author also states that they have ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle
The only discernable text in this five (5) page email are dates and times of the email and the salutation "Thanks for the heads up. talk to you soon." The email is otherwise completely redacted.
Email details an agent's orientation, notes, meetings and briefings upon arriving at Guantanamo, including touring Camp Delta and Camp IV. Document mostly redacted.
Email concerning Guantanamo Matters. Contents mostly redacted.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Israel's Supreme Court held that the General Security Service is not authorized to employ certain investigation methods that involve the use of physical pressure against a suspect.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
The author states that he/she is attaching documents that may be of interest to Spike Bowman, who is reviewing legal aspects of detainee interviews at Guantanamo. They were provided by one of the JAG lawyers working at CITF. One of these is a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Discusses Ibn Sheik al Libby being sent to Egypt to be tortured in order to get information from him. "Later, FBI sources complained to me that the Egyptians didn't learn any more from the prisoner than they had."
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
George J. Tenet, Robert S. Mueller, George W. Bush
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
Legal Analysis of Interrogation Techniques. Contents redacted.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Contents Completely Redacted
This email concerns an FBI Official going to Guantanamo to "sit down with the 2 Star and Lieutenant Colonel" concerning the role of the FBI and the mission of the FBI at Guantanamo.
The author states: "Although we think it's not prudent to dwell on [a certain Lieutenant Colonel's] style and actions, we believe that before the General can fully appreciate what the FBI has to offer, he must first understand what has ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Email sender is an FBI official in Guantanamo. He notes that Pentagon was scheduled to repatriate four (4) detainees, three (3), (Afghans) and one (1) (Tajik) to their home countries in late October [2002], and that the same plane will return ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Michael E. Dunlavey
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet

Summarizes activities at Camp Delta, Guantanamo - Feedback sessions, coaching and training in "al-Qaida 101," "Islam 101" and Behavioral Assessment/Interview Strategies. Meetings with FBI/CITF leaders, plans for feedback ...

Memo re: Meeting with MPs 30 August 2002. Contents redacted.
The author is giving a bullet point up-date on the interviewing of detainees at Guantanamo. The up-dates includes: i) continuing assistance to the FBI/CITF; ii) There is a release package for about 20 detainees now up at Belvoir for authority to ...
FBI Memo from Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) to Behavioral Sciences Consultation Team (BSCT) re: CITF-BSCT Guantanamo Interrogators Debrief July 31, 2002. Memo states "On July 31, 2002, the CITF Behavioral Sciences Consultation team ...
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Behavioral Assessment of Security and Interview Strategies and Training at Guantanamo. Report on Consultation April 2-4, 2002. Contents redacted.
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Deputy Commander, Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Consultation at Guantanamo July 9-11, 2002. Contents redacted.
FBI Notes re: Documents Provided to SSA, FBI While Assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Between April-May 2002 and November-December 2003. Contents redacted.
Email from FBI WMD Operations Unit to [Party Redacted] re: Suicide Bomber Profile; Information Guide - Trends - Tactics - Techniques. Contents redacted.
FBI Memo from Behavioral/Operational Consultation Team to FBI Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) re: Assessment and Recommendations Regarding Interviewing, Debriefing, Interrogation of Al-Qaeda/Taliban detainees at Guantanamo. Contents ...
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Behavioral Assessment of Security and Interview Strategies and Training at Guantanamo. Contents redacted.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Contents completely redacted.
Email appears to be personal email to FBI personnel from an unknown sender. Subject: "hello, FBI-Guy" and "the letter". Contents redacted except for "I'll be in at 10:30 Friday morning. I'll check around to see if you're still here at that time."
The author of the email is informing Frankie Battle that DOD interrogators have been impersonating FBI agents during their interrogastions. He/she states that "DOD interrogators [have been] impersonating Supervisory Special Agents of the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Gary M. Bald | Frankie Battle | Arthur M. Cummings, II
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Contents completly redacted.
Information Regarding Detainees at Guantanamo, Contents Completly Redacted
Guantanamo Task Force Special project Update. Almost entirely redacted
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Counterrorism Division Guantanamo Bay Inspection Special Inquiry Computer search page. No content.
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. An FBI Information Technology ...
Responding to email concerning detainees. The memo author states they did not witness or participate in aggressive treatment, interrogations or interviews of military detainees at Guantanamo that was not consistent with FBI policy.
[Redacted] did not witness or participate in aggressive treatment, interrogations or interviews of GTMO military detainees that was not consistent with FBI policy.
Responds to inquiry. Author observed no aggressive treatment of detainees between 4/16/2003-4/18/2003