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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Mar. 10, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6088
The document is an internal FBI email regarding draft appropriate procedures for FBI divisions to follow when producing documents for the Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6087
An chain of emails advising an FBI official what to do with an FBI Special Agent who has been approached by an Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator regarding the capture in Afghanistan of a subject who was later killed reportedly ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Grant Ashley, Mark J. Mershon, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Patrick W. Kelley
Mar. 09, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6086
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the attached draft JTF-GTMO Executive Summary related to the interrogations of ISN (Internment Serial Number) 063. The memorandum details the detainment and interrogation of Detainee Maad al ...
Non-legal Memo, Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Willie T. Hulon, Thomas J. Harrington, Michael P. Kortan, Cassandra M. Chandler, Jay W. Hood
Mohammed al Qahtani
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6085
Chain of emails discussing whether or not FBI agents receive Department of Justice lawyer representation during interviews with non-FBI personnel when the potential of being charged with criminal responsibility exists. The inquiring FBI official ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon | Robert D. Grant
Feb. 28, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6084
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the ACLU's FOIA litigation related to the treatment of foreign detainees and the release of relevant FBI documents and emails.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole
Feb. 28, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6083
The document is an internal FBI email regarding Gary Bald's answer for the FBI's data request on detainee abuse, as initially requested by the DoJ. Gary Bald denies witnessing any unusual interview techniques during his visits to Iraq and ...
Email
Gary M. Bald
Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole
Feb. 25, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6082
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a call from a redacted person related to access to FBI documents detailing arguable mistreatment of detainees by DoD employees or subcontractors.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, Valerie E. Caproni
Feb. 23, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6081
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a 02/20/05 Department of Defense request for FBI documents related to detainee abuse allegations.
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley
Sept. 30, 2013 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6080
An email regarding the interview of an FBI Special Agent by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service/IG as an witness to abuse of a detainee by Special Forces in Afghanistan. The agent did not witness any abuse and provided a statement and other ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Mark J. Mershon | Robert D. Grant | Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon, Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle
Feb. 15, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6079
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a Q&A attachment that Eleni Kalisch has made changes to.
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Eleni P. Kalisch