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. 11, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6336
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding guidelines for FBI operations in Iraq, designed especially for the FBI's Iraq Task Force (ITF), located in Doha, Qatar. The memorandum also includes information on command and control, ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3098
An unidentified individual informed the FBI Sacramento Field Office of numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees he/she observed in Iraq. The individual described that such abuses included strangulation, beatings, placement ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Physical assault, General, Other
Jan. 29, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6126
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the Counterterrorism Division to the Director's Office, regarding a request for FBI executive management to approve an Operations Order that details mission operations and requirements for ...
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Charles Frahm
Apr. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5997
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the Counterterrorism Division to all divisions, regarding the establishment of the Terrorism Incident Response Protocol (TIRP) - a tool to improve the efficiency of responses to acts of ...
Non-legal Memo
Counterterrorism Division
Frankie Battle, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Thomas G. Donlon, M. Chris Briese, Robert A. Blecksmith