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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| ACLU-RDI 3315
Cover Sheet re: Reprocessed Documents. No other content. No documents attached.
May 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3316
Email discusses a New York Times front page article describing the role of the FBI in Iraq after the turnover of sovereignty. The email specifically disputes that Saddam is being held as a "High Value Detainee" by the FBI. It states that he is ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, George W. Bush
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3317

Emails between Frankie Battle, MC Briese, Valerie Caproni, TJ Harrington re: DOD Guidelines when serving in Iraq. Several FBI agents who served are mentioned.

May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle
M. Chris Briese | Valerie E. Caproni | Thomas J. Harrington
Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Michael J. Folmar, Thomas M. Powers, Thomas V. Fuentes, Chris Swecker, Edwin L. Worthington, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
Oct. 15, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3313
Human Rights Watch claims that the detention facilities being operated by the CIA are un-lawful and requests to visit the detention facilities in Afghanistan. CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller replies that the CIA is operating lawfully and ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
George Tenet | Condoleeza Rice | Scott W. Muller
George J. Tenet, Condoleeza Rice, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Scott W. Muller, Antonio Taguba, George W. Bush, William J. Haynes, II
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3314

Emails between Valerie Caproni to T.J. Harrington and Otrhers re: Instructions for FBI Interrogators at Guantanamo. The emails goes in to detail on how FBI agents serving at Guantanamo should conduct themselves and not deviate from Bureau ...

Mar. 21, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Valerie E. Caproni, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, Andrew Arena, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bruce Swartz, Alice Fisher
May 18, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 3311

CIA press release States that May 2004 New Yorker story on a "DOD/CIA program to abuse and humiliate Iraqi prisoners" is "fundamentally wrong" and that spokesman has no awareness of CIA officials who could have confirmed ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Bill Harlow
July 23, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 3312

Senator Cornyn fowarded correspondence he recieved from one of his constituents asking: "I read a story about 3 CIA personnel who may have killed three prisoners. The Agency submitted their reports to the Justice Dept. Interrogations of ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3310
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3307
FBI memo for SAC Stephen R. Wiley concerning issues at Guantanamo. The memo gives details about the FBI's BAU witnessing detainee abuse by DOD representatives that included: Sleep depravation; use of loud music/bright lights; and "growling" dogs. ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Stephen R. Wiley
Apr. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3308
An FBI agent who served at Guantanamo is responding to an EC sent to NCAVC, dated March 25, 2003. The agent states that the current email was on behalf of themself and another agent, and was also being sent "to every BAU SSA who spent their ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle