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.

Search Result (6709)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3136
May 27, 2004 Iraq Daily Situation Report. John Pistole is asking Valerie Caproni to review the "2nd paragraph" of the report "re: the techniques" and to discuss it with him and Gary Bald. Email is heavily redacted as to content.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni | Gary M. Bald
John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Maureen Baginski, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, Kenneth L. Wainstein
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3137
Email chain concerning questions from Congress re: Detainee abuse allegations, Iraqi public corruption, contract fraud and Members of the House Armed Services Committee visiting Guantanamo on 5/25/2004
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller | Kenneth L. Wainstein | Eleni P. Kalisch | Cassandra M. Chandler | John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Eleni P. Kalisch, Cassandra M. Chandler, John F. Curran, Kathleen E. Kennedy, Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker, Laura M. Laughlin, Thomas G. Kinnally, Michael P. Sullivan
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3134
Email is completly redacted except for subject title - Afghanistan
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3135
Email is almost completly redacted. No subject in re: caption.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni | Marion E. Bowman
John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3132
An FBI agent touring Guantanamo witnessed four (4) seperate incidents of detainee abuse, including stess positions, extreme hot/cold rooms, isolation and the use of loud music upon the detainees.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3133
An FBI agent states that when he/she was at Guantanamo they did observe treatment that was not only aggressive, but personally very upsetting. He/she states that these (unspecified) techniques were not being conducted by FBI agents, but employed ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Other
July 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3130
Emails between Patrick W. Kelley, John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni and Others re: Confidential memo from Colin L. Powell regarding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees with habeas corpus proceedings pending. The confidential memo from the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Email
Patrick W. Kelley, John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Anne M. Gulyassy, James A. McAtamney, Colin L. Powell, John D. Ashcroft, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington
| ACLU-RDI 3131
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
Sept. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3128
FBI Memo re: NCIS investigation into detainee abuse. Memo concerns an NCIS investigation into reported detainee abuse. When interviewed, detainees were unable to provide names/agencies of their abusers. However, they were able to provide ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3129
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman and Others re: GTMO tribunal schedule. Emails refer to latest "GTMO CSRT List." Concerns GTMO tribunal list and status of detainee tribunals at GTMO. The list is attached and ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni | Marion E. Bowman
Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman