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 3040
Email deatils a detainees's Guantanamo hearing wherein the detainee wants to represent himself or have a Yemeni lawyer represent him.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3041
Email discusses detainee's hearing at Guantanamo where press, Amnesty International, ACLU, Human Rights Watch and the American Bar Association were present.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Aug. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3042
Email concerns news paper article about Guantanamo. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is mentioned.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
George S. Layton
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Toni M. Fogle, George S. Layton, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Aug. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3043
Update on inquiry requiring personnel at GTMO since 9/11/01 to respond. 530 employees served at GTMO and were notified by e-mail. 478 have responded. 26 of those stated they observed what was believed to be some form of mistreatment and provided ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3044
Internal FBI email requesting agents who served at Guantanamo to submit reports on their observations if abuse of detainees, if any. One (1) agent submitted an abuse allegation.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw, Valerie E. Caproni
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious, Other
Aug. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3045
Detainee issue. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3046
FBI agent observed a detainee shackled to a chair with loud rock music playing and a strobe light flashing.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3047
Ms. Caproni states in her email that according to a redacted source the policy on exculpatory info detainees is not set and will most likely not be set until the redacted source returns in 2 weeks.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
July 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3048
FBI agent details abuse of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious
July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3049
FBI status update to Valerie Caproni on responses from FBI agents assigned to Guantanamo re: Detainee abuse
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Donald W. Thompson, Jr