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 06, 2004 | CRIM | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3221
The memo states its purpose to be to request SAC authority to open captioned full field investigation in to accusations that officials of the Executive branch are engaged in public corruption. It provides enclosure(s): (1) original and (2) one ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas G. Kinnally, Kathleen E. Kennedy
June 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3222
Investigation related to corrupt federal public officials. Memo details that on June 1, 2004, "SAC Thomas G. Kinnally authorized Squad CR-15 to proceed with captioned investigation." Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Michael P. Sullivan, Kathleen E. Kennedy, Thomas G. Kinnally
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3223
Investigation related to corrupt federal public officials. Memo details that on June 1, 2004, "SAC Thomas G. Kinnally authorized Squad CR-15 to proceed with captioned investigation." Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas G. Kinnally, Kathleen E. Kennedy, Michael P. Sullivan
June 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3224
Memo is broken up in different sections. One section is entitled potentially relevant federal criminal statutes. Another section is entitled potential issues to be discussed at May 4, 2004, [the contents are redacted].
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3225
FBI Memo displays a table with approximately six cases, with a summary of facts. The sum of the cases discuss allegations of fraud and abuse. One case discusses an allegation of fraud and the fact that the FBI and DCIS are conducting ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Michael P. Sullivan
Robert A. Spencer, Thomas H. McQuillan, Michael P. Sullivan, Darlene Hooley
June 14, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3226

Letter from Michael Posner, the Executive Director of Human Rights First to Attorney General John Ashcroft. The letter requests information on the investigation of those who reportedly committed acts of torture to hold them legally responsible ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Michael Posner
John D. Ashcroft
John D. Ashcroft
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3227
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3228
FBI notes. Non-descript information on Page 8 that states "On or about 5/28/2004 FBIHQ/CTW Unit Chief reported the receipt of a telephone call from [redacted] [who] advised [the] UC he returned to the United Stales. [Redacted] also advised he was ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3229
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3230
FBI Memo to U.S. Army Criminal Investigative Division re: On 07/27/2004, members of U.S. Army Criminal Investigative were referred a case involving the alleged rape of juvenile male detainee Ghraib Prison, Abu Ghraib, Irag
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Sexual