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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Nov. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6253
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the FBI's most current interrogation policy for detainees
Nov. 01, 2004 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 1295
This Department of Defense memo is to address questions that may arise from the release of the Schlesinger Report and Navy Inspector General Admiral A.T. Church's review of detainee operations at Guantanamo. The memo includes a brief description ...
June 24, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Albert T. Church, James R. Schlesinger, Geoffrey D. Miller
Water dousing, Sexual, Forced grooming, Use of water, Other Humiliation
Nov. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6036
An email about FBI agents getting contacted by the military to partake in interviews as witnesses to allegations of prisoner abuse. One FBI Agent will be asked to recall any injuries or marks or complaints on a detainee he interviewed at ...
Nov. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6254
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the best course of action to be taken with regards to a detainee. The decision reached is to have the detainee shifted over to Abu Ghuraib Prison.
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese
Oct. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6075
An email, including a chain of forwarded emails, concerning an Naval Criminal Investigative Service interview of a Las Vegas FBI Special Agent regarding an incident in which the FBI agent is alleged to have been present during an interview ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Oct. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3918
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6097
An email included a forwarded chain of emails regarding the protocol for reporting in Afghanistan. A Special Agent may or may not have been a witness to the death of a detainee and had been interviewed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Warren T. Bamford
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6096
An email chain that again references an FBI agent who was present in Afghanistan during a detainee death and faced possible Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigation.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6094
A chain of emails discussing the possible investigation by a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator of a FBI agent who had been present in Afghanistan when a prisoner died. The agent filled out an action report upon return, and ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Mark J. Mershon, Grant Ashley, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, J. Stephen Tidwell
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6087
An chain of emails advising an FBI official what to do with an FBI Special Agent who has been approached by an Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator regarding the capture in Afghanistan of a subject who was later killed reportedly ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Grant Ashley, Mark J. Mershon, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Patrick W. Kelley