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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July 11, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6304
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a request that FBI agents who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo fill out surveys on whether they witnessed abuse of detainees.
Dec. 18, 2009
Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
June 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6215
Series of emails dealing with responses to QFRs (Questions for the Record) following the Director of the FBI's testimony before the Senate Judiciary on 05/20/2004.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Marion E. Bowman
Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Patrick W. Kelley, Janice K. Fedarcyk, J. Stephen Tidwell
Dec. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6468
This document is an email describing the allegations of a detainee (whose name is redacted). The detainee claims to have been abused by two FBI agents in Afghanistan who later came back to interrogate him in GTMO. Detainee claimed that the FBI ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valarie E. Caproni
Redacted; Charlene Thornton
Valerie E. Caproni, Charlene B. Thornton, Julie F. Thomas, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington
Threat
Oct. 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6470
This document is an email to redacted FBI officials seeking guidance regarding military request to interview Special Agents in the field in Afghanistan on detainee abuse and deaths. Patrick Kelley responds that National Security Law Branch is ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Patrick Kelly
[Redacted] (OGC) (FBI)
Patrick Kelly, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4913
FBI email to FBI field agent encouraging them to report any knowledge of abuse of detainees at Guantanamo. One (1) agent stated he observed "aggressive techniques used by non-FBI interrogators" and the reply he received was to report what he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4949
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI Agent responds to a ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Arthur M. Cummings, II | Frankie Battle
Steven C. McCraw, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle
July 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4950
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent responds "I saw ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Valerie E. Caproni
Steven C. McCraw, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4961
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4969
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent states that he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4970
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. While touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle