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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FBI Memo: Describing interview with detainee, detainee is described as resistant and "allegedly destined for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
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. SA [redacted ...
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
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 & ...
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet

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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw
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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
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.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.

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.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
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 ...
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI Chart: "Abu Ghurayb prison - Iraq FBI Personnel Interviews." Includes names of individuals interviewed; the FBI personnel who interviewed; office assignment/POC; Current location/status; INSD Personnel Assigned to Conduct Interview; INSD ...
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.

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 ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Notes
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
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 ...

E-mails between FBI Officials re: Houston Interview. Conversations include FBI interview results re Abu Ghurayb.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.

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 ...

Memorandum stating that DIA interrogators at Guantanamo mis-represented themselves as FBI officials when interrogating detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
David E. Nahmias, Valerie E. Caproni, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
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.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity

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 ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Criminal Investigative Command referral to FBI re: Identification form for military detainee - Iraq. Mostly redacted.
Contents Completely Redacted Under FOIA Exemption
Testimony of Valerie Caproni, GC, before the House Intelligence Committee 7/14/04
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Jane Harman
FBI talking points memo re: FBI participation in overseas investigations. Mostly redacted
FBI Deleted Information Sheet
Contents Completely Redacted
FBI talking points memo re: Polices governing the FBI's participation in overseas interrogation. Heavily redacted.