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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Feb. 18, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6341
The document is a chart that depicts the functions and organization of the FBI Office of General Counsel.
June 15, 2011
Chart/List
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Patrick W. Kelley, Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas
Aug. 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6323
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the waiving of OPR liability for FBI agents who witnessed abuse at Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Aug. 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6322
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the waiving of OPR liability for FBI agents who witnessed abuse at Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle
Sept. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6321
The document is an internal FBI document, regarding the circumstances in which FBI agents must be granted notice.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle
May 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6313
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding potential examinations of the FBI's role and involvement in detainee abuses alleged at Abu Ghurayb Prison.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
Dec. 16, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6308
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding information about the Counterterrorism Law Unit II ("CTLU II").
June 15, 2011
Email
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas
Aug. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6301
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update to a special inquiry conducted of FBI personnel who served in some capacity at the Guantanamo Bay facility about any observations of aggressive treatment of detainees by either Department ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6300
The document is an internal FBI email that has been heavily redacted. The email states that interviews have begun.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Patrick W. Kelley
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
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