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. 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6222
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the provision of copies of written reports that note FBI disagreements or objections to the handling of detainees by any American entities in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Eleni P. Kalisch
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6224
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the revision and finalization of the text of a Question for the Record (QFR) submitted to Congress about the FBI's treatment of detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Eleni P. Kalisch
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. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6255
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding FBI involvement in overseas interrogations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Oct. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6256
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the drafting and provision of an outline of issues, including requests for FBI agents to be interviewed to to testify regarding their participation in detainee interrogations.
Oct. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6257
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the decision of federal judge Kollar-Kotelly that terror suspects held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay must be allowed to meet with lawyers and that their conversations cannot be monitored.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Oct. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6258
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding advice related to FBI personnel conduct in extraterritorial situations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
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. 29, 2004 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6350
The document is a memorandum sent from the Office of Oversight and Review in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to the FBI Inspection Division, regarding a request for preliminary information by the OIG. The information will be used to ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carol F. Ochoa
Charlene B. Thornton
Charlene B. Thornton, Carol F. Ochoa
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