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. 13, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5996
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General for FBI documents regarding detainee issues, specifically a a confidential memorandum clarifying the status of detained ...
Nov. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5995
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the General Counsel to all divisions, regarding an appropriate course of action in response to requests received from military criminal investigative services to interview FBI personnel ...
Legal Memo
FBI General Counsel
Jan. 05, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5994
The document is a press release from the FBI regarding the release of FBI documents related to detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. The statement includes information about FBI employee surveys conducted regarding possible mistreatment of ...
Other
National Press Office
Dec. 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5992
The document is a letter from Assistant Director Eleni P. Kalisch of the Office of Congressional Affairs to Senator Patrick Leahy, regarding Senator Leahy's claim that FBI Director Mueller withheld key information about the mistreatment of ...
Letter
Eleni P. Kalisch
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Robert S. Mueller, Patrick Leahy, Eleni P. Kalisch
Dec. 21, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 5990
The document is a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the FBI's withholding of key information about the abusive treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.
Letter
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Robert S. Mueller
Patrick Leahy, Robert S. Mueller
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5989
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a detainee issue. The email has been heavily redacted, so the contents of the email are unknown.
Email
Kenneth L. Wainstein
Robert S. Mueller | Valerie E. Caproni
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Valerie E. Caproni
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
Feb. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6198
The document is an internal FBI detainee interrogation report. The report is almost entirely redacted, but pertains to the interrogation of Detainee 00269DP at Guantanamo Bay.
June 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6211
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of extreme and abusive interrogation techniques against detainees by the military as well as the procedures for reporting such techniques to the Department of Defense.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Mohammed al Qahtani
June 01, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6213
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the disagreements concerning interrogation plans and ...
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Geoffrey D. Miller
Mohammed al Qahtani, Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif al Dosari, Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, Mohamedou Ould Slahi