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.
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 ...
Ms. Caproni states in her email that according to a redacted source the policy on exculpatory info detainees is not set and will most likely not be set until the redacted source returns in 2 weeks.
FBI Memo from EAD Pistole to Counter-terrorism, attn: Gary M. Bald, M.Chris Briese, and Valerie E. Caproni re: 315E-HQ-1448534, 01/27/2004.
Interrogation team, Baghdad, seeks authority to question the subject without reading the subject warnings ...
Original and reply e-mails seek clarification from an unidentified special agent regarding a his prior interview statements in re detainee treatment. Specifically, in his interview, he recounted asking the prison guards to treat a specific ...
FBI Memo: Integrity in Government/Civil Rights Section Filed Investigations Iraq/Afghanistan June 2004.
Notes several corruption cases and alleged rape case.
FBI E-mail from: [redacted] to [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] re: FW Iraq Interviews.
The original e-mail message includes attachments of inserts, containing results of three FBI interviews.
In the reply message, the author states, ...
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: Tribunal proceedings.
Discusses the prosecution of two individuals with FBI testimony playing leading role in the tribunal process.
[One redacted email author refers to himself in ...
FBI Memo re: Interview/Interrogation -1/27/2004- AGC- Attorney Client Privileged Material. Entire document redacted. The following was in this description box, not clear where the information came from, because the document is completely ...
FBI email between [parties redacted] re: Corrected Version of Abu Ghraib Prison Interviews. Emails include the following conversations: "UC advised him of concerns previously documented regarding the DOD interrogation techniques at ...
This FBI email mentions disagreements between the DOD and the FBI on how to handle interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo bay. The FBI is advising DOD on techniques that were ineffective in producing reliable intelligence. Email cites example ...
Email between FBI Officials on the Law Rnforcement On-line system with an update on detainee operation in Iraq, May 23, 2004. Email includes detailed notes and photographs describing the conditions of Camp Bucca, Iraq. The agent provides an ...
FBI interview of Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detainee. The detainee interrogation took place from 8:00 am to 5:00pm. Detainee was offered water and food but declined, said he was fasting. Detainee was shown FBI photo book of terrorists and ...
Valerie Caproni to Frankie Battle, Laura M. Laughlin and others re: Potential curruption concerning bid rigging and kickback schemes in Iraq, i.e. Coalition Provisional Authority.
FBI Memo to the Department of Defense stating that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interviewed a detainee at Fleet Hospital of Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay. Contents heavily redacted.
Detainee describes the Qala-i-Jangi prision uprising outside Mazar-e-Sharif, Nov. 25 - Dec. 1, 2001. Detainee state that he was shot, but does not know by whom.
Detainee was interviewed on April 1, 2002 regarding the Qala-i-Jangi prison uprising, Nov. 25 - Dec. 1, 2001. He states that an explosion happened in the prision basement, maybe from a grenade, where he and many other prisoners were kept. He ...
Requests Language Services translate a document which contains the names of 66 pakistani detainees who were released from Sheberghan prison identified as potentially posing a threat.
E-mails between Steven C. McCraw and others re: "Abu Ghurayb Prison (AGP) Matter." The original message informs Steven C. McCraw that the individual(s) followed up with Valerie Caproni and she advises that there are no additional interviews that ...
Email chain concerning questions from Congress re: Detainee abuse allegations, Iraqi public corruption, contract fraud and Members of the House Armed Services Committee visiting Guantanamo on 5/25/2004
Behavioral Analysis Advisor writes he observed aggressive interrogation techniques that were planned and implemented against certain detainees. The email states "As you may be aware, I was in GTMO and I did observe aggressive Interrogation ...