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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May 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2829

Cable summarizes the results of 14 interviews of FBI personnel who participated in detainee interviews at Abu Ghraib between October and December 2003. Attached to the cable is a classified chart of FBI personnel who conducted interviews at ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington | Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Brenton L. Mosher, Warren T. Bamford, Edward J. Barrett
Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
June 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2830
List of FBI agents interviewed about interrogations at Abu Ghraib sent to Valerie Caproni with attachments. Attachments include August 2002 memo to Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) about services provided to Guantanamo and emails ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List, Email
Valerie E. Caproni
J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Valerie E. Caproni, Brenton L. Mosher, Warren T. Bamford, Edward J. Barrett, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, Marion E. Bowman, Pasquale D'Amuro, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Robert S. Mueller
May 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2831
FBI memo documenting Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) assistance and challenges encountered during TDY assignment in Guantanamo.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Hector M. Pesquera
Hector M. Pesquera, Frankie Battle
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2833
An FBI memo from Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) personnel at Guantanamo to Commanding General Geoffrey Miller. Contents of the memo are completely redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
Nov. 27, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2835
Legal analysis of interrogation techniques sent from FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) to FBI legal counsel.
Dec. 15, 2004
Legal Memo
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2837
Memo from FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) and Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) at Guantanamo to Commanding General of Joint Task Force 170, Geoffrey Miller.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2839
Memo from FBI agent to the file. Contents completely redacted
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2840

This email refers to a meeting with the DOD regarding prisoner-abuse investigations in Iraq.  The contents of the email is "If I can provide any additional information, please let me know I'll be out of the office on Monday, May 17th, ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni | Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley
Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2841

Contents redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2842

Contents redacted.