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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Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3037
This email provides a reference to an FBI Electronic Communication (EC) that contains allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo. Mostly redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Other
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3260
Emails between FBI Officials re: Method of obtaining an FBI Agent's statement concerning the agent's knowledge of detainee abuse that the Detainee Detention Facility Baghdad, Iraq.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Donald W. Thompson, Jr
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3261
Emails discuss where the interview of an unidentified individual will take place; another email discusses a phone call from the CDC in Sacramento.
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3262
The first email message reads "this is how the whole thing started." At the end of the document, there is what appears to be a witness sworn statement page. Most of the email's contents are redacted.
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3350
Email is to coordinate bringing an FBI agent in for an interview concerning information regarding detainee abuse allegations.
May 18, 2005
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3351
Email between FBI officials concerning a new OPR matter. Email is heavily redacted without any information regarding the OPR matter.
May 18, 2005
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 27, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3837
Address from Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the Biennial Conference of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Berlin, Germany on August 27, 2004. The address discusses, generally, global terrorist attacks with ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Louise Arbour
Frank E. Schmelzer , Sandra Day O'Connor
Yaser Esam Hamdi, Shafiq Rasul
Aug. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3856
Emails discuss a statement by Colin L. Powell regarding Uyghur detainees. Mr. Powell apparently stated in an article (link provided) that the Uyghur detainees would not be sent back to China.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
Colin L. Powell, Monica J. Tillery, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Christopher N. Camponovo, Frank E. Schmelzer
Aug. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4157
Email mentions an International Committee of the Red Cross package.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, Sharon E. Ahmad, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6106
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding an FBI agent who received anonymous verbal harassment for reporting information about detainee abuse to an ongoing IG investigation. The email shows two FBI officials agreeing to fly him ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle