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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This document is a lengthy email from a FBI agent who repeatedly expresses discomfort with FBI interrogation methods. He reports being "placed in a very precarious situation" and "asked to do something I fest was wrong given what FBI agents can ...
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the imminent release of a letter written by Thomas Harrington on the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the provision of copies of written reports that note FBI disagreements or objections to the handling of detainees by any American entities in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Eleni P. Kalisch
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the revision and finalization of the text of a Question for the Record (QFR) submitted to Congress about the FBI's treatment of detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Eleni P. Kalisch
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the procedure for the investigation of allegations of FBI abuse and mistreatment made by detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Jay W. Hood, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding requests made by the NCIS for documents related to two specific detainees as well as information related to allegations of abuse.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a redacted FBI personnel's trip to Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, including details on a briefing on the status of the Combat Status Review Tribunal process.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an NCIS investigation into allegations made by a detainee of physical abuse after his capture as well as the FBI's possible involvement in the abuse.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Frankie Battle