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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FBI agent details abuse of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious
Detainee issue. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
FBI agent observed a detainee shackled to a chair with loud rock music playing and a strobe light flashing.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
Update on inquiry requiring personnel at GTMO since 9/11/01 to respond. 530 employees served at GTMO and were notified by e-mail. 478 have responded. 26 of those stated they observed what was believed to be some form of mistreatment and provided ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr
Internal FBI email requesting agents who served at Guantanamo to submit reports on their observations if abuse of detainees, if any. One (1) agent submitted an abuse allegation.
Email discusses detainee's hearing at Guantanamo where press, Amnesty International, ACLU, Human Rights Watch and the American Bar Association were present.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Email concerns news paper article about Guantanamo. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is mentioned.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
George S. Layton
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Toni M. Fogle, George S. Layton, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Email states that NCIS is the lead on the detainee abuse investigations at Guantanamo Bay.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Email deatils a detainees's Guantanamo hearing wherein the detainee wants to represent himself or have a Yemeni lawyer represent him.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Email details approval for the Guantanamo facility by Rear Admiral James M. McGarrah in charge of the Office of Administrative Review for Detained Enenmy Combatants
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Gordon R. England, James M. McGarrah
This email provides a reference to an FBI Electronic Communication (EC) that contains allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo. Mostly redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Other
Email discusses a detainee's preliminary hearing and request for additional counsel.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle
Concerns discussing an update on Guantanamo with SC Fogle. The email states "where are we with this? Do we need to get Mr. Thompson involved? I'd like to get these interviews done."
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle, Larry Thompson
Email re: NCIS investigating allegations about physical abuse of a detainee when he was captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan by Americans dressed in black.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Frankie Battle
Physical assault
Indicates an incident wherein a detainee at Guantanamo was the subject of a "Forced Cell Extraction". The email states "the incident described by the detainee matches up with an instance wherein the detainee was the subject of a Forced Cell ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Jay W. Hood
Other
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni and John Curran re: NCIS request for documents.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
FBI talking points re: Polices governing the FBI's participation in overseas interrogation. Heavily redacted.
Emails between Valerie Caproni and John Curran re: NCIS request for documents on detainees
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
Contents Completely Redacted
FBI talking points memo re: Polices governing the FBI's participation in overseas interrogation. Heavily redacted.
FBI talking points memo re: FBI participation in overseas investigations. Mostly redacted
FBI Deleted Information Sheet
Testimony of Valerie Caproni, GC, before the House Intelligence Committee 7/14/04
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Jane Harman

Email refers to request by TJ Harrington to speak to General Miller regarding the impersonation of FBI interrogators and requests specific dates and details.

[Page 2 of this document was later released in less-redacted form, and is ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Criminal Investigative Command referral to FBI re: Identification form for military detainee - Iraq. Mostly redacted.
Contents Completely Redacted Under FOIA Exemption
DOD email concering the outcome of a June 2003 investigation of an incident where Defence Intellience Aagency officials impersonated FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Email questioning the correctness of using of non-FBI personal to impersonate FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo. The email states "When I was in the unit in December, I thought we agreed to take everything out of the EC that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity

FBI letter from T. J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI to Gen. Ryder Major General US Army Criminal Investigation Command describing three (3) situations observed by FBI agents of highly aggressive interrogation techniques/assault ...

Memorandum stating that DIA interrogators at Guantanamo mis-represented themselves as FBI officials when interrogating detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
David E. Nahmias, Valerie E. Caproni, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.

FBI email between [parties redacted] re: Corrected Version of Abu Ghraib Prison Interviews. Emails include the following conversations: "UC advised him of concerns previously documented regarding the DOD interrogation techniques at ...

E-mails between FBI Officials re: Houston Interview. Conversations include FBI interview results re Abu Ghurayb.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
Emails between FBI Officials re: Iraq Interviews in NY with the message: "Here are the inserts of the two interviews I did in NY After your review, let me know if you want me to have them uploaded."
FBI E-mail from: [redacted] to [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] re: FW Iraq Interviews. The original e-mail message includes attachments of inserts, containing results of three FBI interviews. In the reply message, the author states, ...
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.

An FBI memo about activities of FBI personnel at Abu Ghraib prison during October 2003 - December 2003. Memo is addressed to: T.J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, Operational Support- Counterterrorism Division; [redacted], Special ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Notes
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI Chart: "Abu Ghurayb prison - Iraq FBI Personnel Interviews." Includes names of individuals interviewed; the FBI personnel who interviewed; office assignment/POC; Current location/status; INSD Personnel Assigned to Conduct Interview; INSD ...