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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May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3060
Email from Valerie Caproni stating that the FBI is the lead on interrogating a detainee who's name is redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3061
Valerie Caproni to Frankie Battle, Laura M. Laughlin and others re: Potential curruption concerning bid rigging and kickback schemes in Iraq, i.e. Coalition Provisional Authority.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Frankie Battle
Laura M. Laughlin, Valerie E. Caproni, Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker, Thomas G. Kinnally, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Marion E. Bowman, Frankie Battle, Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., John Klein, Patrick Rowan, Michael P. Sullivan, Michael A. Mason
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3062
Email details a meeting on May 14, 2004 between Laura Laughlin, Patrick Rowen, Robert Reed and others from DoD and FBI officials discussing the status of criminal prosecutions of military and civilian personnal involved in prisioner abuse in Iraq ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Laura M. Laughlin, Patrick Rowan, Robert E. Reed
Other
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3063
Email refers to an attached "Definitive guidance regarding the conduct of detainees." Attachment not provided.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni | Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3064
These emails refer to the understanding that the FBI will be the lead interrogators of detainees according to the DOJ-OLC. Ms. Caproni states "I'll be happy to brief you on the particular detainee they are referring to once we know who it is."
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
May 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3065
Email desribes the Final, approved EC for FBI field agents being deployed to Iraq. Attachements not provided.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3066
FBI email regarding a proposed Electronic Communication (EC) memo dealing with the treatment of detainees. Heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Cassandra M. Chandler | Gary M. Bald | Eleni P. Kalisch
Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Gary M. Bald, Eleni P. Kalisch, John S. Pistole
May 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3067
Author states that "issues have arisen [sic] regarding the interrogation techniques employed by the military at Guantanamo." And that DOJ was not pursuing any interviews outside the scope of Iraq at this time, but may as the military ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3068
Email From Patrick Kelley To Valerie Caproni re: FBI is not involved in an Investigastion of the Abuse of an Un-named Iraqi Prisioner, AUSA Brian Murtagh is Investigating the Matter
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni
Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, Brian Murtagh, Jr.
May 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3069
Attaches a DOD fact sheet on Guantanamo detainees, a newly released DOD order establishing administrative review for procedures for enemy combatants held in Guantanamo and a DOD news release. Attachments not provided.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Kenneth L. Wainstein, John S. Pistole