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 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2463
This email concerns a Video Tele Conferece on interrogation policy to "determine a legal basis of this on how it relates to the Geneva Convention". Heavily redacted.
May 14, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2728
An email that includes the Final Outline on Iraqi Detainees (DSS outline), of which there have been 67 drafts.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick Rowan | Laura Parsky | David Nahmias | Teresa L. McHenry | Jennifer Levy
Patrick Rowan, Laura H. Parsky, David E. Nahmias, Teresa L. McHenry, Jennifer Levy
May 14, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2729

Text fully redacted. Email Subject: Wolf Letter

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
David E. Nahmias
Jeffrey Taylor
David E. Nahmias, Jeffrey Taylor, Christopher A. Wray, John Richter, Rena Comisac, Laura H. Parsky, Patrick Rowan, Frank Wolf
May 14, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2770
Email with an attachment called "DOJ Assistance Programs for the..." Attachment not provided.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Adam Isles
Rena Comisac | Joseph Jones | Bruce Swartz | Karl Maschino | Carl Alexandre
Karl Maschino, Adam Isles, Rena Comisac, Joseph Jones, Carl Alexandre, Bruce Swartz
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2826

A string of emails regarding Abu Ghraib Prison abuse allegation forwarded from Tomas J. Harrington to Valerie Caproni noting that the FBI may be asked about Abu Ghraib and that FBI Director Mueller and General Ricardo Sanchez are aware of the ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni | Frankie Battle | Thomas J. Harrington | Gary M. Bald
Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, Dana Biehl, Bruce A. Pagel, Ricardo Sanchez
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2840

This email refers to a meeting with the DOD regarding prisoner-abuse investigations in Iraq.  The contents of the email is "If I can provide any additional information, please let me know I'll be out of the office on Monday, May 17th, ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni | Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley
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
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3073
M. Chris Briese sent an email stating "All, The Director wanted to know (by the end of the day) if anyone from the FBI had first-hand knowledge of any abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. If so, how did we handle it. I know that we have been made aware ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
M. Chris Briese
Edward H. Lueckenhoff | Thomas V. Fuentes | Chris Swecker | Frankie Battle | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
M. Chris Briese, Chris Swecker, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Thomas V. Fuentes, Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3074

Preparations for The Director's Senate Judiciary hearing on 5/20/04 Concerning the Treatment of Prisoners, i.e. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Kenneth L. Wainstein
Valerie E. Caproni
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole, Eleni P. Kalisch, Paul K. Martin, Frank Wolf
May 14, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4275
Email from Jeremy Caddel to William Taylor concerning a Reuters article about US rejecting the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission access to Afghan detainees. However, it is noted that the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Jeremy D. Caddel
William B. Taylor
William B. Taylor, Pierre-Richard Prosper, David W. Barno