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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Dec. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6418
This document is a heavily redacted email exchange between Valerie Caproni and another official with the subject line "battlefield advice."
Dec. 07, 2010
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Sept. 16, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6417
This document consists of FBI penalty guidelines, which are used to assess the proper penalty for various types of FBI misconduct. It features the an explanation and purpose of penalties, and then provides detailed instructions on different ...
Sept. 16, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6416
This document consists of FBI penalty guidelines, which are used to assess the proper penalty for various types of FBI misconduct. It features the an explanation and purpose of penalties, and then provides detailed instructions on different ...
Jan. 03, 1994 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6415
This document is a memo from the Director of the FBI providing guidelines on the disciplinary process within the FBI. He expresses his hope to draw a "bright line" is order to keep all employees aware of his expectations and sets out his vision ...
Dec. 07, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6414
This document consists of excerpts from the Legal Handbook for Special Agents concerning confessions and interrogations.
June 01, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6413
This document is OIG's request for "all documents related to any warning, assurance, grant, or promise, concerning disciplinary or other adverse consequences, given to any FBI employees who, since September 12, 2001, was asked or required to ...
Feb. 18, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6412
This document lists procedural rights of "performance eligible" employees (employees who have spent more than one year in the same position) in case of adverse actions against them.
Feb. 23, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6411
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with FBI's representative to CENTCOM (Army's Central Command). It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he ...
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6410
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he observed a variety of torture, ...
Dec. 07, 2010
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Family/others, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Threat, Environmental manipulation
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6409
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Valerie Caproni. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Caproni comments on the origins of the OIG investigation, discusses ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Valerie E. Caproni