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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Emails between Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: US DOJ Executive Secretariat correspondence. Urges the AG to do all he can to ensure regular unrestricted access by the International Committee of the Red ...

Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: Tribunal proceedings. Discusses the prosecution of two individuals with FBI testimony playing leading role in the tribunal process. [One redacted email author refers to himself in ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, T.J. Harrington, and Others re: Reported incidents of possible detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. An NAE official reports three incidents he/she witnessed while in Guantanamo Bay on or around ...
Emails between [redacted party], Valerie Caproni and John Curran re: Interrogation. Mentions a NY Times article discussing Steve Cambone's testimony that DoD guidelines permit the forced disrobing of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Stephen A. Cambone

Emails between m Valerie E. Caproni to to Steven C. McGraw re: List of agents at Abu Ghraib Prison October 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003. Heavily redacted.

Emails concerning a briefing paper on FBI role in interrogations. Email discusses a DOJ prep meeting and needing the briefing paper before that meeting. One email states "If, during the conduct of any interview, events occur that, in the opinion ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran | Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
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
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 ...
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 ...

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 ...