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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This document is a email chain discussing recommendations concerning interviews and interrogations made in a former email.
CID Report with hand written Memos addresses an investigation into an alleged abuse and concludes that there was insufficient evidence to prove assault, but that cruelty and maltreatment occurred. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
This CID investigation concerns an allegation of an assault upon a detainee while at FOB Headhunter. The detainee alleges that after he was captured he was hooded, was struck about the head and body by fists and kicked. He also stated he was hit ...
Oct. 01, 2008
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Threat, Assault/death
An email sent to Executive Assistant Directors and Assistant Directors at FBIHQ asking for materials relevant to the ACLU's FOIA request of documents/records created from 9/12/2004 to 5/25/2004 that pertain to the treatment of detainees held ...
CID report of investigation following the report by two members of a military unit deployed to Iraq who accused their fellow unit soldiers of stealing money, food and cellular phones from Iraqi civilians on “numerous occasions”, while searching ...
The document is a memorandum summarizing the results of the 10/26/04 debriefing of a previous Iraq Deployment On-Scene Commander (OSC) and two Deputy On-Scene Commanders and recommendations for future Iraq deployments. The topics of discussion ...
This document is a memorandum alerting Toni Fogle of the FBI's Internal Affairs Division of an investigation into the death of a detainee, Haji Sher Mohammad, and requesting to interview a special agent who administered a gunshot residue test to ...
Non-legal Memo
Toni Fogle
Haji Sher Mohammad
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
An email included a forwarded chain of emails regarding the protocol for reporting in Afghanistan. A Special Agent may or may not have been a witness to the death of a detainee and had been interviewed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services ...
An email chain that again references an FBI agent who was present in Afghanistan during a detainee death and faced possible Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigation.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon