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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Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6239
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a TRIM document received from ODAG McAtamney. The TRIM document is a memorandum regarding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees with pending habeas corpus proceedings.
June 15, 2011
Email
James A. McAtamney, Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Tracey North, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Colin L. Powell
May 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6274
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the treatment of prisoners and detainees and includes further clarifications from the Office of General Counsel on the subject. The memorandum reiterates that FBI guidelines do not allow for ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald
Jan. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6282
The document is an internal FBI memorandum from EAD John Pistole to the Counterterrorism Division, regarding the request of HVD-1's (Saddam Hussein) Interrogation Team to question the subject without reading him the Miranda rights, to videotape ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6288
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether the FBI's operations in Iraq were primarily for intelligence-gathering or also for the collection of evidence for prosecutions. The email also includes information on a case in which an FBI ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, M. Chris Briese, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald
May 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6313
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding potential examinations of the FBI's role and involvement in detainee abuses alleged at Abu Ghurayb Prison.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2849
Email thread discussing possibility of FBI abuse at Abu Ghraib. One email says "Bottom line is FBI personnel have not been involved in any methods of interrogation that deviate from our policy [redacted]. The specific guidance we have given has ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Chris Swecker, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3081
Email details FBI investigation of mistreatment, abuse or "highly aggressive" treatment of detainees in Iraq that are known or observed by FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo. The email states that fourteen (14) agents have witnessed ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Patrick W. Kelley, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Patrick Leahy, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Hector M. Pesquera
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3091

Emails concerning internal DOD news with this initial comment from Marion "Spike" Bowman: "I understand that there is/was to be a strategy session with FBI in about 10 days. I presume those in the FBI involved with this ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Gary M. Bald | Arthur M. Cummings, II | Valerie E. Caproni | John F. Curran
Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran
July 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3125

Emails between Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: US DOJ Executive Secretariat correspondence. Urges the AG to do all he can to ensure regular unrestricted access by the International Committee of the Red ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni | John F. Curran | Marion E. Bowman | Thomas J. Harrington | Bruce J. Gebhardt | John S. Pistole
Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Jonathan I. Solomon, John S. Pistole, Maureen Baginski, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Eleni P. Kalisch, Glenn A. Fine, John D. Ashcroft, Chris Swecker, Bruce J. Gebhardt
Jan. 06, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6073
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the FBI's lack of involvement in detainee abuse and the claim that the FBI Director did not need to be specifically aware of any abuse allegations.
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington