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 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3195
The email states that because of "issues that have developed regarding "interrogations" and detainee handling techniques used at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the developing interest in interrogation techniques at Guantanamo" the BAU members must ...
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3196
The email states "After we got off the phone, I found the attached email which we sent to General Miller last year. Also, there is a copy of the miltary's use of approved coercive techniques which are quite different I am sure from the Bureau ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Other
Dec. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3197
Attaches "an outline of the coervive techniques in the military's interviewing toolkit. I will also send our Interview Plan for Detainee [redacted]. When I return to D.C. I will bring a copy of the military's interview Plan?. You won't believe it!"
Mar. 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3192
FBI Memo re: To Provide Counterterrorism and CIRG Divisions with a Progress Report. Encloses FBI team "Interrogation Strategy". Document heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
May 13, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3193
Email states recient new article on CNN reported Gen. Karpinsky saying that Gen. Miller wanted to "Gitmoize" Abu Ghraib. The email also refers to article in Stars and Stripes news paper where Gen. Miller had said he believed in "rapport-building ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Apr. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3194
The email provides and update on the team's re-orientation upon arriving back in Iraq. It states the team briefed MPs on how important the MP's were, and preparations for a visit from the International Red Cross/Crescent.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
M. Chris Briese
Frankie Battle
M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
Oct. 16, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3190
Describes logistics and expected outcome of upcoming training workshop by the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)on interviewing extremists.
Oct. 24, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3191
This email discusses logistics for upcoming Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) training workship on interviewing extremists.
Apr. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3187
Email to Frankie Battle in response to an email sent by the NCAVC. The author states that this email contains two (2) EC's and they have sent the "main email to both the Miami Division and Counterterrorism". The author also states that they have ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle
May 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3188
The only discernable text in this five (5) page email are dates and times of the email and the salutation "Thanks for the heads up. talk to you soon." The email is otherwise completely redacted.