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 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3051
Assessment from the Office of Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants. Contents heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John F. Curran
John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Frankie Battle
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3055
Answer to a question posed in earlier meeting re: FBI questioning detainee. Contents heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John F. Curran
John F. Curran, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, M. Chris Briese
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3057
Preparation of Gary M. Bald for testimony before the House Permenant Select Committee on Intelligence on Iraqi prisoners, including detainee interrogations.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Arthur M. Cummings, II | Frankie Battle | M. Chris Briese
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese
May 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3070
Email discusses a New York Times article re: FBI role in Iraq after sovereignty is turned back over to the Iraqis; the FBI to assist the Iraqi tribunal; and if Saddam Hussein is being held by the FBI. Author notes that to his/her knowledge, ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3076
Email is to prepare the Director for an up-coming congressional hearing on Torture allegations, and if anyone was made aware of any such allegations. Bowman states that the matter was sent to SAC in Miami and CT. In addition it states that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Kenneth L. Wainstein
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3078
The author of the email states that 5/7/2004 he/she was interviewed by the Military Inspector General concerning abuse allegations at Guantanamo; the use of Military Police in conducting interviews of Detainees; or being aware of any abuse of ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni | John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Thomas J. Harrington, Elaine N. Lammert
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3091

Emails concerning internal DOD news with this initial comment from Marion "Spike" Bowman: "I understand that there is/was to be a strategy session with FBI in about 10 days. I presume those in the FBI involved with this ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Gary M. Bald | Arthur M. Cummings, II | Valerie E. Caproni | John F. Curran
Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3095
FBI Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker and Others concerning reports of abuse of detainees at Guantanamo and the scheduled interview of a specific (un-named) detainee who is considered a High Value target. Many of the emails in the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Chris Swecker | Joseph R. Lewis | Marion E. Bowman | John S. Pistole | Gary M. Bald | Eleni P. Kalisch | John F. Curran | Michael T. Roachford | David Szady
Robert A. Spencer, Bruce Swartz, Laura H. Parsky, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert S. Mueller, John D. Ashcroft, John F. Curran, Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
June 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3100
FBI E-mail from Chris Swecker to Valerie E. Caproni re: UR714/SC/Detainee Abuse. [Email is heavily redacted] Later e-mails note that decision was made at DOJ that these matters would not be investigated as Civil Rights Violations. There is ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker, Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran, Joseph R. Lewis, Jana D. Monroe, Eleni P. Kalisch, Maureen Baginski, Charles Phalen, David W. Szady, Mark J. Mershon, Michael P. Sullivan
June 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3104
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni and Marion E. Bowman and John F. Curran re: Department of Justice 2002 Torture Memo.the email states "Folks, Note that I'm still trolling the intemet in hopes of finding the 2002 DOJ memo re use of torture. The ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman | John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran