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 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6274
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the treatment of prisoners and detainees and includes further clarifications from the Office of General Counsel on the subject. The memorandum reiterates that FBI guidelines do not allow for ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6278
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy. The email includes information about an EC written by the FBI ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6282
The document is an internal FBI memorandum from EAD John Pistole to the Counterterrorism Division, regarding the request of HVD-1's (Saddam Hussein) Interrogation Team to question the subject without reading him the Miranda rights, to videotape ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6285
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding Saddam Hussein. The contents of the email have been almost entirely redacted.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6288
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether the FBI's operations in Iraq were primarily for intelligence-gathering or also for the collection of evidence for prosecutions. The email also includes information on a case in which an FBI ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, M. Chris Briese, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald
Oct. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6298
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a request from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) for a list of names of FBI personnel who served at Abu Ghuraib Prison as a part of abuse allegation investigations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Marion E. Bowman
Feb. 18, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6306
The document is the FBI Office of General Counsel response to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General request for additional information, regarding supervisory employees in the National Security Law Branch and Counterterrorism ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Marion E. Bowman, Julie F. Thomas
Dec. 17, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6309
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman
Dec. 03, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6310
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques. The author of the email, Marion Bowman, states that the FBI does not approve of the harsh interrogation techniques being used ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Pasquale D'Amuro, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Robert S. Mueller
Dec. 04, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6311
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques, and the FBI's participation.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman