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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Dec. 03, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6310
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques. The author of the email, Marion Bowman, states that the FBI does not approve of the harsh interrogation techniques being used ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Pasquale D'Amuro, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Robert S. Mueller
July 11, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6305
The document is an internal FBI memorandum for special agents in charge, regarding the guidelines for conducting FBI investigations overseas. The memorandum includes information on Legal Attaches ("Legats"), leads in foreign countries, ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller
Sept. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6299
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the newly created Offense Table and Penalty Guidelines related to the FBI disciplinary process. The guidelines are intended to aid employees in determining the types of behavior that ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole
Jan. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6203
The document is an internal FBI email sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the status of Iraqi fingerprinting efforts as well as the results of such efforts.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6195
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Valerie Caproni to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the definition of the abuse and/or mistreatment of prisoners as well as what type of conduct should and should not be reported.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
June 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6193
The document is an internal FBI email sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, including a brief synopsis of an AG briefing that covered the issues of MEK interviews and the impact of potential press on ongoing operations.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
June 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6192
The document is an internal FBI email sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding possible topics for an AG meeting with a redacted entity, including prisoner abuse cases and legal advice about the treatment of detainees.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller
June 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6190
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Robert S. Mueller
Eleni P. Kalisch, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell Jacoby
Jose Padilla
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6189
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Michael P. Kortan, Grant Ashley
Physical assault, General
July 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6187
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update on two prisoner abuse cases that are pending.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Valerie E. Caproni, Robert A. Spencer