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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Sept. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6357
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an NCIS request to interview a Special Agent who was involved in the capture of a detainee who later died in custody. The email includes information on the procedure by which these investigations ...
June 15, 2011
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell
J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Warren T. Bamford
Sept. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6356
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an NCIS request to interview a Special Agent who was involved in the capture of a detainee who later died in custody.
June 15, 2011
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell
J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Frankie Battle
July 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6346
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a letter to be sent by the FBI Office of General Counsel to the DoD detailing previously unreported detainee abuse allegations. In one email, an agent, whose name is redacted, speaks passionately ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, J. Stephen Tidwell
June 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6215
Series of emails dealing with responses to QFRs (Questions for the Record) following the Director of the FBI's testimony before the Senate Judiciary on 05/20/2004.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Marion E. Bowman
Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Patrick W. Kelley, Janice K. Fedarcyk, J. Stephen Tidwell
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6097
An email included a forwarded chain of emails regarding the protocol for reporting in Afghanistan. A Special Agent may or may not have been a witness to the death of a detainee and had been interviewed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Warren T. Bamford
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6094
A chain of emails discussing the possible investigation by a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator of a FBI agent who had been present in Afghanistan when a prisoner died. The agent filled out an action report upon return, and ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Mark J. Mershon, Grant Ashley, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, J. Stephen Tidwell
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
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3513
Emails discuss recommended changes J. Stephen Tidwell has made to Valerie E. Caproni's document. Tidwell also mentions that he has concerns over GTMO issues in general.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Marion E. Bowman, Janice K. Fedarcyk
July 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3323
Email details four (4) incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo: Three (3) unspecified; and one (1) involving dogs used against a detainee.
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Bruce J. Gebhardt
Valerie E. Caproni, Bruce J. Gebhardt, J. Stephen Tidwell, Marion E. Bowman, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Patrick W. Kelley
Use of phobias
June 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3099
Most emails are heavily redacted concerning the Interview protocols (IP) involving a High Valued Detainee at Camp V (Five) at Guantanamo. The first email in the chain states "Although the recommended changes add detail that we believe is ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Janice K. Fedarcyk | J. Stephen Tidwell | Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Bruce J. Gebhardt, J. Stephen Tidwell
Use of phobias
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