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.
FBI Memo Counterterrorism to Counterterrorism Tampa (Iraqi task force and SA [name redacted] re: to set lead for the Iraqi Task Force to conduct queries about the significance and/or meaning of a tattoo observed on an Iraqi POW.
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This FBI memo concerns the activities of FBI personnel at Abu Ghraib prison from October 2003 to December 2003. The FBI conducted 15 interviews of military personnel, each being present at Abu Ghraib prison at some point during October 2003 & ...
Handwritten FBI notes regarding military personnel behavior at Abu Ghraib prison. Includes accounts of humiliation. [Documents are handwritten, slightly illegible].
E-mails between Steven C. McCraw and others re: "Abu Ghurayb Prison (AGP) Matter." The original message informs Steven C. McCraw that the individual(s) followed up with Valerie Caproni and she advises that there are no additional interviews that ...
E-mail between[redacted] (Div 10) (FBI) to [redacted] (INSD) (FBI), and Valerie E. Caproni re: FW News from Iraq.
Email discusses a follow up interview; awaiting a response from an unidentified SA regarding his/her exact location while at ...
Email between Valerie Caproni and other FBI Officials with the message: "and/or Valerie - Attached an "insert" on the follow up interview Let me know if you think it suffices." No attachment included.
E-mail between [redacted], Valerie Caproni and others [redacted] re: Post report.
Reply Email between [redacted], Valerie Caproni and others [redacted]; original message from: Valerie Caproni; to: Cassandra Chandler, Eleni Kalisch, Kenneth ...
Original and reply e-mails seek clarification from an unidentified special agent regarding a his prior interview statements in re detainee treatment. Specifically, in his interview, he recounted asking the prison guards to treat a specific ...
E-mail between T.J. Harrington, Valerie Caproni and other un-named FBI officials concerning photographs on a CD from various FBI personnel during their TDY rotation to the Baghdad Operation Center. An FBI agent who reviewed the CD did not believe ...
E-mail between [redacted] to [redacted] re: Revised Draft of EC & Enclosures. Email states a revised draft of the EC and two enclosures are attached. The revised draft of the EC and one of the attachments is classified as SECRET.
Emails between FBI IOfficials concerning news from Iraq over Abu Ghraib prison. There is a reference to photos and awaiting a response from an unidentified Special Agent re his whereabouts when he was present at Abu Ghraib Prison.
Email between FBI Officials on the Law Rnforcement On-line system with an update on detainee operation in Iraq, May 23, 2004. Email includes detailed notes and photographs describing the conditions of Camp Bucca, Iraq. The agent provides an ...
An FBI memo about activities of FBI personnel at Abu Ghraib prison during October 2003 - December 2003. Memo is addressed to: T.J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, Operational Support- Counterterrorism Division; [redacted], Special ...
Emails between FBI Officials re: Iraq Interviews in NY with the message: "Here are the inserts of the two interviews I did in NY After your review, let me know if you want me to have them uploaded."
FBI E-mail from: [redacted] to [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] re: FW Iraq Interviews.
The original e-mail message includes attachments of inserts, containing results of three FBI interviews.
In the reply message, the author states, ...
FBI email between [parties redacted] re: Corrected Version of Abu Ghraib Prison Interviews. Emails include the following conversations: "UC advised him of concerns previously documented regarding the DOD interrogation techniques at ...
FBI letter from T. J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI to Gen. Ryder Major General US Army Criminal Investigation Command describing three (3) situations observed by FBI agents of highly aggressive interrogation techniques/assault ...
DOD email concering the outcome of a June 2003 investigation of an incident where Defence Intellience Aagency officials impersonated FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo.
Email questioning the correctness of using of non-FBI personal to impersonate FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo. The email states "When I was in the unit in December, I thought we agreed to take everything out of the EC that ...
Email refers to request by TJ Harrington to speak to General Miller regarding the impersonation of FBI interrogators and requests specific dates and details.
[Page 2 of this document was later released in less-redacted form, and is ...