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.
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to communications between FBI employees and any other U.S. ...
The document details guidelines for conducting Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigations, including delegated investigation/adjudication cases (DIAs), delegated investigations (Dis), and non-delegated cases (NDs). The document ...
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
The document includes several sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on full-field terrorism enterprise investigations, publications of terrorism enterprise organizations, and the collection ...
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on investigations of government employees, investigations of FBI employee misconduct, and administrative inquiries.
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on the authority of a special agent, investigative responsibility, and investigative authority and the First Amendment.
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on policies for the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense related to the investigation and prosecution of criminal ...
The document is the FBI Office of General Counsel response to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General request for additional information, regarding supervisory employees in the National Security Law Branch and Counterterrorism ...
This document is a fax detailing the work by the FBI with detainees held by the Northern Alliance in Sheberghan, Afghanistan. it concludes that, at this time, no detainee can be considered "safe" and recommends several for transfer to Bagram and ...
The document includes Part 1 of the FBI Manual of Administrative Operations and Procedures (MAOP), which addresses activities and standards of conduct. The document includes information on ethics advice and training, personal conduct regulations, ...
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), Other Abu Bachir Physical assault
This is the Death Certificate for Tha'ir Kaduri Salman was a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on May 28, 2006. Mr. Salman was playing volleyball in the camp yard when he was witnessed to suddenly ...
This is a CID Report in to the Death of Naser Ismail, an Iraqi citizen that was shot & killed in Balad, Iraq on January 3, 2004. This Report is the Investigative Action and prosecution of the soldiers involved in the matter. It is reported that ...
This DOJ Letter from Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York to Alexander Abdo of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responds to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of October 16, 2009.
The document is an FBI cover sheet for the release of interview reports from New York pertaining to detainee ISN 661. The reports are for the Department of Defense, Criminal Investigation Task Force.
Considerably redacted talking points on the legal standards that apply to interrogations of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Gharib and Afghanistan. The notes specifically talk about Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, Article 16 of the ...
Talking points on FBI participation in overseas interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Gharib. The document notes the "400 actionable leads" that have been a "direct result" of the "4,000 detainee interviews." It goes on to say ...
A cover sheet called "GTMO Special Inquiry" with the following information written on the sheet: "Emails received which were individuals: not on GTMO, wrong identity, Afghan."
Through a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU, an 804 out of 845 page document was released regarding an OIG investigation on interrogation of detainees. This document is an explanation of exemptions made in the aforementioned released ...
A deleted-page information sheet from the FBI in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The FBI notes in the sheet that it has withheld 51 pages in their entirety (stamped Detainees 1099 to Detainees 1149) pursuant to various FOIA ...
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
Email by FBI Special Agent Jon E. Bibnik responds to an Inspection Division request about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO detainees." Bibnik responds affirmatively and recounts an ...
This special inquiry document reports that an inspector requested an SSA previously detailed to GTMO to provide a statement of observed behavior regarding the treatment of military detainees at the facility. Said SSA witnessed no aggressive ...
530th Military Police Battalion-Camp Ashraf Mission Brief/PowerPoint presentation on the rights of enemy prisoners of war (EPWs). The presentation includes Geneva Convention articles and principles, which discuss the proper treatment of EPWs.
News article about a German television news report that reported the torture and killing of an Iraqi prisoner by US soldiers at a US military base in Al Asad West, Baghdad, Iraq. The news program, Spiegel TV, reported that a 47 year old Iraqi, ...
The Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center's interrogation standing operating procedures, among other rules and principles, it provides an interrogation code of conduct.
Document appears to be a PowerPoint presentation that explains appropriate interrogation tactics, techniques and procedures. Topics include use of an interpreter and interrogation planning and preparing. [Contents redacted].