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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June 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3080
Email to M. Chris Briese concerning a statement of an Iraqi civilian detained by the 2/501st Military Police (MP) Unit at Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq. The detainee states he was turtored "from morning until the morning of the next day"; ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Gary M. Bald
M. Chris Briese | Valerie E. Caproni
Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Thomas J. Harrington, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, General, Stomach/abdominal slap, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Other
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3081
Email details FBI investigation of mistreatment, abuse or "highly aggressive" treatment of detainees in Iraq that are known or observed by FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo. The email states that fourteen (14) agents have witnessed ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Patrick W. Kelley, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Patrick Leahy, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Hector M. Pesquera
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other
May 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 3082
An immediate DOD Press Release: "Review Procedures Announced for Guantanamo Detainees"
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3083
Entire Contents redacted.
May 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3084
Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3085
Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch, Cassandra M. Chandler, Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3086
Contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3087
Entire contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3088
Pages 1559 - 1580 were inadvertently skipped during numbering
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3089
Cover page marked "OGC E-MAILS PART 2 [Pages 1581-16861].