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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June 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3325
Email is a follow-up on a report of cases involving the UN Oil for Food program. Chris Swecker replys and states: "They are standing down on opening a case and are conferring with the military".
May 18, 2005
Email
Laura M. Laughlin
Valerie E. Caproni
Laura M. Laughlin, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker
June 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3326
Emails between Valerie Caproni, Marion Bowman and Others re: Torture Memo Found on the Internet. No attachment or content.
May 18, 2005
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3327
Ed Lueckenhoff sent an email stating that "I have been told that all interrogation techniques previously authorized by the Executive Order are still on the table but that certain techniques can only be used if very high-level authority is ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Edward H. Lueckenhoff
Gary M. Bald | M. Chris Briese | Thomas J. Harrington
Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni, Arthur M. Cummings, II
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3328
Edward H. Lueckenhoff's email detailes the problems at Abu Ghurayb prison and that he met with AUSAs Dana Biehl and Bruce Pagel who visited the prison. He states that AUSA Pagel advised that he [Pagel] was aware of the allegations of abuse at the ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Edward H. Lueckenhoff
Gary M. Bald
Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Dana Biehl, Bruce A. Pagel, Ricardo Sanchez, Robert S. Mueller
Sleep deprivation, Other
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3329
Valerie Capronie askes Michael A. Mason if there were any reports of Military officials taking "kick-backs". He replies "The latter referrals (re corruption) came via a telephone call Nothing on paper yet, although we have asked for the ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Michael A. Mason
Valerie E. Caproni, Michael A. Mason
Mar. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3330
FBI Memo re: To document the background, plan and objectives for the scheduled deployment of FBI personnel to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to request CTD approval of the documented travel; Identify, acquire and install the technology necessary to ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Marcus C. Thomas, John F. Curran, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Margaret R. Gulotta
Feb. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3331
Email discusses meeting to be scheduled re: Combatant Status Review Tribunal
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Frankie Battle, James M. McGarrah, Paul Clement
July 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3332
Memo regarding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees with habeas corpus proceedings pending
May 18, 2005
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
John F. Curran
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Patrick W. Kelley, Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole, Maureen Baginski, Grant Ashley, Jonathan I. Solomon, James A. McAtamney, Colin L. Powell, Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Anne M. Gulyassy
May 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3333
Emails between Valerie Caproni, Eleni Kalisch and Others re: Potential New Iraq Public Corruption Case
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Eleni P. Kalisch | Kenneth L. Wainstein
Valerie E. Caproni, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Chris Swecker, Laura M. Laughlin, Joseph R. Lewis, Thomas G. Kinnally, Kathleen E. Kennedy
June 11, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3334
FBI Memo re: Fingerprinting detainees status update