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 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6212
A considerably redacted email regarding whether or not the FBI should proceed with the interview of the detainee.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6203
The document is an internal FBI email sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the status of Iraqi fingerprinting efforts as well as the results of such efforts.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole
June 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6193
The document is an internal FBI email sent to FBI Director Robert Mueller, including a brief synopsis of an AG briefing that covered the issues of MEK interviews and the impact of potential press on ongoing operations.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
June 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6190
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Robert S. Mueller
Eleni P. Kalisch, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell Jacoby
Jose Padilla
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6189
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Michael P. Kortan, Grant Ashley
Physical assault, General
Dec. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6185
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a Monday, December 13, 2004 DCI briefing. The email includes a brief synopsis of the information presented at that meeting, including updates from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Spain.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Willie T. Hulon, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6168
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of FBI operations and involvement at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, detainee-related issues that were brought by the FBI to the ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Patrick Rowan, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, John B. Bellinger, III, John S. Pistole, Kenneth L. Wainstein
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6160
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, John Ashcroft, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Raymond Mey, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Robert S. Mueller, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Paul Wolfowitz, Willie T. Hulon, Michael J. Heimbach
Feb. 26, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6157
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Andy Arena, regarding his responsibilities as Section Chief of International Terrorism Operations as well as three areas and issues related to detainees.
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, David E. Nahmias, Bruce Swartz, Dale L. Watson, Robert S. Mueller, Stephen R. Wiley, Marion E. Bowman, George J. Tenet, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bruce J. Gebhardt
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6149
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about legal issues raised about the interrogation techniques employed in a redacted detainee's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. The ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Robert S. Mueller, Alice Fisher, Michael Chertoff, Christopher A. Wray, Larry Thompson, John Ashcroft, David Ayres, Patrick Philbin, Whit Cobb, Condoleeza Rice, Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah