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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Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6056
An email, which includes two forwarded emails, between two FBI officials regarding detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The forwarded emails discuss the possible procedural paths to take in a situation where six reports from FBI personnel who were ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6050
Two forwarded emails documenting the redacted author receiving a letter from Army CID requesting a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. This request is part of an investigation of allegations of abuse against detainees ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Marion E. Bowman, Elaine N. Lammert, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6043
An email discussing the Army's requests for an FBI internal report describing abuses witnessed by the FBI and a list of FBI employees who performed interrogations at Abu Gharib. The NY Times mentioned the internal report in an article on ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6361
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding a request to establish a pre-deployment training program for FBI personnel who deploy to Afghanistan. The memorandum includes a cost analysis as well as a preliminary draft syllabus.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Willie T. Hulon, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Oct. 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2699
Statement of Civilian Contractor (CACI), Interrogator who stated he was present during the in-processing of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison when detainees were medically screened as they first came in. Does not recall any abuse. The copy is ...
Oct. 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2709
This Army memo discusses the nutritional sufficiency and health effects of eating primarily a bread and water diet over a period of time. The memo concludes that "diet of bread and water for up to seventeen days should not canoe any health ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Joseph Wood
Oct. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6225
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the procedure for the investigation of allegations of FBI abuse and mistreatment made by detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Jay W. Hood, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald
Oct. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6298
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a request from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) for a list of names of FBI personnel who served at Abu Ghuraib Prison as a part of abuse allegation investigations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Marion E. Bowman
Oct. 07, 2004 | CSRT | ACLU-RDI 575

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an "Enemy Combatant" and that he willingly joined the Taliban and fought against American armed forces. The detainee denied all allegations against him, ...

Nov. 30, 2005
Legal Memo, CSRT
Other
Oct. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2238
Executive summary provides brief notes from an army senior detainee operations oversight council.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Donald J. Ryder