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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Jan. 24, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6238
A series of emails regarding whether or not the FBI has updated its responses to a Congressional Question for the Record (QFR) regarding the FBI's involvement with and knowledge of detainee treatment.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Eleni P. Kalisch
Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6292
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding document information related to impersonation by Department of Defense interrogators at Guantanamo representing themselves to be official of the FBI and the U.S. State Department.
Oct. 30, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Jan. 21, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6457
This document is a series of emails concerning interviews conducted by Brig. Gen. Furlow and Paul Zimmerman of USDOJ OIG regarding FBI agents and members of the military who may have witnessed detainee abuse.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Patrick Kelly
Julie F. Thomas
Patrick Kelly, Julie Thomas
Jan. 21, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6458
This document is an email to FBI personnel informing them that DOJ OIG has begun an inquiry into abuses of detainees at GTMO, Abu Ghraib, and other U.S. military prisons. The message notes that Patrick Kelley is the point of contact for DOJ OIG. ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni
Julie Thomas, Patrick Kelly
Jan. 04, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6459
This email outlines the procedure for processing accusations of abuse by detainees, confirming that the FBI turns over reports of detainee abuse to DoD, who are responsible for investigating.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valarie E. Caproni
Redacted
Valerie E. Caproni
Dec. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6460
This document is mostly redacted. The most substantive portion states that [Redacted] (OGC) (FBI) sent an unredacted copy of an email from 1/21/04 5:15 p.m. entitled "Subject: FWD: re: Impersonating FBI."
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie Thomas
Nov. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6462
This document is an email in which two FBI officials discuss advice given on reading Miranda warnings to detainees overseas. Most of the document is redacted.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
[Redacted] (OGC) (FBI)
Julie F. Thomas
Julie F. Thomas
Jan. 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6463
This document is a memo which mentions the Financial Privacy Act and the Buckley Amendment, healthcare fraud. It also mentions an upcoming meeting "to discuss whether WFO SAs may live in undercover properties."
Oct. 30, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Unlisted
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
| ACLU-RDI 6464
This document contains several pages re. taking a "lessons learned" approach to agency work. Suggests that, prior to deployment overseas, the FBI should brief agents "regarding the Bureau's policy on presence during/assistance to (etc.) coercive ...
June 18, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6466
This document is a cover page of an FBI report regarding recommendations of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) during the on-site review process at GTMO. The recommendations are based on the prediction that the operations at GTMO regarding the ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Behavioral Analysis Unit | Critical Incident Response Group