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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May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3485
An email between FBI officials discussing how the FBI should approach interrogations in Afghanistan, and specifically discussing the need for guidance. The email focuses in part on the differing approaches of the military and the FBI to ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington
Apr. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2827

An entirely redacted FBI memo relating to a shooting involving a Special Agent in Afghanistan.  The memo refers to Case ID Number: 315N-HQ-C1406946-E.

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle | Kenneth McCabe
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Kenneth McCabe, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Warren T. Bamford, Brenton L. Mosher, Edward J. Barrett
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2849
Email thread discussing possibility of FBI abuse at Abu Ghraib. One email says "Bottom line is FBI personnel have not been involved in any methods of interrogation that deviate from our policy [redacted]. The specific guidance we have given has ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Chris Swecker, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole
Aug. 31, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3035
Email re: NCIS investigating allegations about physical abuse of a detainee when he was captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan by Americans dressed in black.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Frankie Battle
Physical assault
Aug. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3043
Update on inquiry requiring personnel at GTMO since 9/11/01 to respond. 530 employees served at GTMO and were notified by e-mail. 478 have responded. 26 of those stated they observed what was believed to be some form of mistreatment and provided ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3052
Edward H. Lueckenhoff request for Guidance regarding OGC EC dated 5/19/2004. Contents heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Gary M. Bald
Edward H. Lueckenhoff | Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle | Valerie E. Caproni | M. Chris Briese
Edward H. Lueckenhoff, M. Chris Briese, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3073
M. Chris Briese sent an email stating "All, The Director wanted to know (by the end of the day) if anyone from the FBI had first-hand knowledge of any abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. If so, how did we handle it. I know that we have been made aware ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
M. Chris Briese
Edward H. Lueckenhoff | Thomas V. Fuentes | Chris Swecker | Frankie Battle | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
M. Chris Briese, Chris Swecker, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, Thomas V. Fuentes, Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3075
This email contains a request for a list of personnel who were deployed to Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly "that prison" in Iraq in late 2003. A list is provided, but is heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Gary M. Bald | Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington, Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Arthur M. Cummings, II, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
June 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3080
Email to M. Chris Briese concerning a statement of an Iraqi civilian detained by the 2/501st Military Police (MP) Unit at Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq. The detainee states he was turtored "from morning until the morning of the next day"; ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Gary M. Bald
M. Chris Briese | Valerie E. Caproni
Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Thomas J. Harrington, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, General, Stomach/abdominal slap, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Other
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3081
Email details FBI investigation of mistreatment, abuse or "highly aggressive" treatment of detainees in Iraq that are known or observed by FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo. The email states that fourteen (14) agents have witnessed ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Patrick W. Kelley, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Patrick Leahy, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Hector M. Pesquera
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other