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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Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3351
Email between FBI officials concerning a new OPR matter. Email is heavily redacted without any information regarding the OPR matter.
May 18, 2005
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3353
Memo states that the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) was to provide behavioral assistance to the ongoing intelligence gathering mission involving the Detainees being held at Guantanamo.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Andrew Arena
Aug. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3354
Counterterrorism Division Briefing, FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC on 07/26/2002 for Pasquale D'Amuro and his staff
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley | Frankie Battle
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Pasquale D'Amuro, Thomas Carey
June 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3355
FBI memo from CIRG to the Director's Office of Counterterrorism that provides documentation of CIRG/BAU on-site assessment of the interview process at GTMO.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Kenneth H. Senser, Thomas F. Lewis II, John S. Pistole, Pasquale D'Amuro, David W. Szady, Cassandra M. Chandler, Stephen R. Wiley, Mark A. Hilts
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3356
FBI memo concerning claims that DOD interrogators have impersonated FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3357
Memo to FBI officials notifying them of the treatment/interrogation of detainees in Abu Graib and growing interest in the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo. Officials are advised to preserve any documentation (e.g. emails, ECs and notes).
May 18, 2005
Email
Janice K. Fedarcyk
Janice K. Fedarcyk
May 04, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3358
Email contents redacted, however, the name Andrew Arena is un-redacted.
May 18, 2005
Email
Andrew Arena
May 01, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3359
The memo explains that in support of the PENTBOMB investigation, the Guantanamo task force and project was initiated. The memo further states that the US military is operating a Joint Intelligence Interrogation Facility (JIIF) in GTMO and ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Pasquale D'Amuro, Andrew Arena
Aug. 06, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3360
The email states "Steve: What is the status of determining the facts about DHS personnel identifying themselves as FBI Agents? This is totally unacceptable, if in fact it is occurring. Please advise. srw"
May 18, 2005
Email
Stephen R. Wiley
Stephen R. Wiley
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Dec. 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3361
The author of the email expresses his/her concern over the impersonation of FBI SSAs by DoD interrogators. Noting that if the information regarding the treatment/interrogation of detainees is made public, the FBI "DOD interrogators will not be ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle | Arthur M. Cummings, II | Gary M. Bald
Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington