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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May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3219
The emails discuss a request by Congressman Frank R. Wolf's office requesting their (FBI's) attendance at a press conference re: additional funding for gang investigations. In one email, Chris Swecker lists things to later discuss with Laura ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Chris Swecker, Laura M. Laughlin, Michael A. Mason, Thomas G. Kinnally, Joseph R. Lewis, Frank Wolf, Robert S. Mueller, Thomas M. Davis, Paul McNulty
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3215
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3216
This is a note to an SSA stating "The purpose of this note is to present you with a thought/proposal which I hope you will pass up the chain for consideration in the Civil Rights Unit, if something similar is not already underway." The notes ...
Oct. 31, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3212
FBI Memo re: Guantanamo Intel, Major Case 188. Describes role of FBI and CITF in dealing with captured armed Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters brought to GTMO (600, expecting more). FBI staffing has consisted of designated squad from Miami ...
June 03, 2004 | FBI | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 3213
FBI memo from Criminal Investigative to all Field Offices concerning cases Case ID #: 66F-HQ-1339150 and 66F-HQ-C1384970. Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Laura M. Laughlin | Chris Swecker | Joseph R. Lewis
Laura M. Laughlin, Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker
June 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3214
FBI Memo displays a table with approximately six cases, with a summary of facts. The sum of the cases discuss allegations of fraud and abuse. One case discusses an allegation of fraud and the fact that the FBI and DCIS are conducting ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Robert A. Spencer, Thomas H. McQuillan, Michael P. Sullivan, Darlene Hooley
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3210

Testimony of Valerie Caproni, FBI General Counsel, before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Entire contents redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3211

An email from the FBI to the DOJ regarding the revised statement of Valerie E. Caproni, FBI General Counsel, before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The testimony discusses FBI special agent training in interrogating ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Jane Harman
Dec. 13, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3208
This is a letter from an attorney representing a person detained by the U.S. to FBI Director Robert Mueller. In the letter the attorney states that he has reached out to DOD General Counsel William Hayne and Attorney General Ashcroft concerning ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Robert S. Mueller
William J. Haynes, II, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft, Robert S. Mueller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3209
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.