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 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3054
EC attachment on detainees. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3135
Email is almost completly redacted. No subject in re: caption.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni | Marion E. Bowman
John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3136
May 27, 2004 Iraq Daily Situation Report. John Pistole is asking Valerie Caproni to review the "2nd paragraph" of the report "re: the techniques" and to discuss it with him and Gary Bald. Email is heavily redacted as to content.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni | Gary M. Bald
John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Maureen Baginski, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, Kenneth L. Wainstein
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3137
Email chain concerning questions from Congress re: Detainee abuse allegations, Iraqi public corruption, contract fraud and Members of the House Armed Services Committee visiting Guantanamo on 5/25/2004
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller | Kenneth L. Wainstein | Eleni P. Kalisch | Cassandra M. Chandler | John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Eleni P. Kalisch, Cassandra M. Chandler, John F. Curran, Kathleen E. Kennedy, Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker, Laura M. Laughlin, Thomas G. Kinnally, Michael P. Sullivan
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3225
FBI Memo displays a table with approximately six cases, with a summary of facts. The sum of the cases discuss allegations of fraud and abuse. One case discusses an allegation of fraud and the fact that the FBI and DCIS are conducting ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Michael P. Sullivan
Robert A. Spencer, Thomas H. McQuillan, Michael P. Sullivan, Darlene Hooley
May 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4310
Fowarded message from Mark Lagon, Dep. Asst. Sec. Of State for International Organization Affairs states that Kim Holmes wated to see a final version of the edits to the US government submission on detainees to clear before it was dispatched.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Michael A. Butler
Winston E. Mann
Michael G. Kozak, Katherine M. Gorove, Mark P. Lagon
May 27, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4567

A letter from Jack Goldsmith to Scott Muller regarding the CIA Inspector General's Special Review of the CIA's interrogation program.  The letter expresses concern at the fact that, according to the Special Review, aspects of the CIA's ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Letter
Jack L. Goldsmith
Scott W. Muller
Jack L. Goldsmith, Scott W. Muller, John L. Helgerson, John A. Rizzo
EIT, SERE, Use of water, Waterboarding
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6218
Heavy redacted series of emails regarding the FBI's stance on interrogation techniques. One official frames it as a "public perception issue."
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6273
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. The document includes concerns from FBI agents about participating in harsh Department ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, John S. Pistole
May 27, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6543
This email from Jack Goldsmith to Scott Muller discusses the Inspector General Report concerning the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques.
Email
Jack L. Goldsmith
Scott W. Muller
Jack L. Goldsmith, Scott W. Muller
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding