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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July 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3251
The email pertains to the abuse of detainees in Iraq. Refers to interviews of detainees in Jan 2004. and states "In a telephone conversation with Assistance United States Attorney (AUSA) Robert A. Spencer of the Eastern District on July 22, 2004, ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alex J. Turner, Robert A. Spencer
July 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3252
Provides additional information to Washington Field Office (WFO) re [redacted] and the abuse of detainees in Iraq "for review and any logical investigation deemed appropriate regarding the abuse of detainees in Iraq"
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alex J. Turner
Alex J. Turner
July 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3253

FBI Memo to the Washington Field Office with documents and asking to initiate logical investigation concerning crimes on government reservations

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alex J. Turner
Alex J. Turner
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3254
FBI Memo with emails attached concerning two (2) violent crime referrals: 1) Abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; and 2) [Redacted] incident in Afghanistan. Both referrals have FBI Agents assigned and been deployed to to Iraq and ...
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3255
Email chain requests an update concerning a matter origionaly referred to Public Corruption Unit and mentions AUSA Robert Spencer of the Eastern District of Virginia becoming involved in the investigation. Includes 8/9/2004 e-mail noting that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Alex J. Turner, Robert A. Spencer
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3256
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3257
Email states author is complying with a request by Steven McCraw to coordinated interviews of FBI personnel, but will not open internal investigation unless they receive information involving misconduct. Author states he/she has contacted at ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw
Aug. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3258
E-mail states that the Army Criminal Investigation Division requests to interview recipient. States: "I (meaning the Bureau) need to make sure everyone is aware of the situation/relationships"
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3259
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3260
Emails between FBI Officials re: Method of obtaining an FBI Agent's statement concerning the agent's knowledge of detainee abuse that the Detainee Detention Facility Baghdad, Iraq.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Donald W. Thompson, Jr