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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FBI | ACLU-RDI 6267
The document includes information on the FBI approach of rapport-based interviewing.
June 01, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6266
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6265
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on the authority of a special agent, investigative responsibility, and investigative authority and the First Amendment.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6264
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on investigations of government employees, investigations of FBI employee misconduct, and administrative inquiries.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6263
The document includes several sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on full-field terrorism enterprise investigations, publications of terrorism enterprise organizations, and the collection ...
| ACLU-RDI 6262
The document includes information on American policies on a variety of topics, including international terrorism investigations and counterterrorism, as well as information on the FBI's international terrorism responsibilities and the ...
June 02, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6261
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
Nov. 13, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6260
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding contacts at the Department of Defense and the National Security council for the delivery of an Amnesty International report.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
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 ...
Oct. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6258
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding advice related to FBI personnel conduct in extraterritorial situations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman