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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And FBI email stating that members of the 78th Military Police detachment advised that a detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison alleged that on or about June 17, 2004 he was abused in a non-specified way. The detainee was initially detained in February ...
Emails between Gary Bald, Valerie Caproni, Edward Lueckenhoff and Others concerning a report that a detainee walked in to Temporary Holding Facility in Iraq, called 6-26 (TH 6-26), with burn marks upon him. The detainee stated he had been ...
Email is to report a serious report of Detainee abuse. No details given.
Ed Lueckenhoff sent an email stating that "I have been told that all interrogation techniques previously authorized by the Executive Order are still on the table but that certain techniques can only be used if very high-level authority is ...
Edward H. Lueckenhoff's email detailes the problems at Abu Ghurayb prison and that he met with AUSAs Dana Biehl and Bruce Pagel who visited the prison. He states that AUSA Pagel advised that he [Pagel] was aware of the allegations of abuse at the ...
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
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 ...
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