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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Sept. 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1211
Correspondence about the creation of the Detainee Operations Assessment/Assistance team. Function areas include doctrine, accountability, documentation, training, tactical level, force protection, detainee release procedures, physical ...
May 16, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3146
Email requests FBI employees who served at Guantanamo, and did not observation of aggressive treatment of detainees to submit an EC documenting the negitive response.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3148
Responds to request from Section Chief to Unit Chiefs on 9/23/2004, stating that all FBIHQ divisions are requested to search e-mails, work copies and investigative notes in connection with the FOIA application. Lists responsive documents.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3375
Email discussing a search the Divisions are conducting in search of "e-mails, work copies, and investigative notes created or obtained after 9/11/01 through 5/25/04, which contain information concerning foreign detainees.
May 18, 2005
Email
William G. McKinsey
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6017
The document includes notes from FBI Director Robert Mueller's meeting with the SAAC Executive Council during the conference held at the FBI Headquarters from September 28 through 30, 2004. The notes detail the Council's concerns and appreciation.
Notes
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6016
The document is a memorandum including the minutes from the SAAC Executive Council Meeting held at the FBI Headquarters from September 28 through 30, 2004. The document includes information provided by every speaker at the conference.
Non-legal Memo
Gail Scavongelli, Cassandra M. Chandler, Frankie Battle, Chris Swecker
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6014
The document is a detailed meeting agenda for the SAAC Executive Council Conference held at the FBI Headquarters from September 28 through 30, 2004.
Other
Gail Scavongelli, Cassandra M. Chandler, Frankie Battle, Chris Swecker
Sept. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6259
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding release procedures for BL #'s 28, 32, 33, and 34 and includes questions to be resolved about the process. The document also includes information on an NCIS investigation into allegations of abuse ...
Sept. 27, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 31

An investigation into an allegation that, on December 31, 2003, a soldier threatened a detainee with a gun, fired the gun on the ground next to the detainee, and "butt-stroked" the detainee. The investigation "established ...

Oct. 15, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Sept. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4045
No relevant text. [No documents included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Joshua L. Dorosin
Sharon E. Ahmad, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Joshua L. Dorosin