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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Oct. 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6066
An email including two forwarded emails about the, "potential issues... regarding employee rights and liabilities," of a previous handling of an Army request for a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. One of the email ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Mark J. Mershon
Toni M. Fogle | Robert D. Grant | Charlene B. Thornton
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Charlene B. Thornton, Mark J. Mershon, Elaine N. Lammert, Marion E. Bowman
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6050
Two forwarded emails documenting the redacted author receiving a letter from Army CID requesting a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. This request is part of an investigation of allegations of abuse against detainees ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Marion E. Bowman, Elaine N. Lammert, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
May 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4925
FBI Memo re: Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU) Challenges Encountered at Guantanamo Bay. No additional pages; no content.
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Mey, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle
Nov. 15, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3496
Emails between Stephen Wiley, Marion Bowman and Others re: Guantanamo. Contents completely redacted
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Stephen R. Wiley, Marion E. Bowman
May 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3503
This memo is from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU) discussing how the interrogation of suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects was proceeding. The memo states "several discussions were held to determine the most effective means of ...
Feb. 06, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Mey | Marion E. Bowman | Hector M. Pesquera | C. Frank Figliuzzi
Stephen R. Wiley, Raymond Mey, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3512
Emails discuss "Iraq guidance" and meeting with the new deputy of OSD/OGC.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3513
Emails discuss recommended changes J. Stephen Tidwell has made to Valerie E. Caproni's document. Tidwell also mentions that he has concerns over GTMO issues in general.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Marion E. Bowman, Janice K. Fedarcyk
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3531
The email asks for additional information concerning a report that DHS interrogators would await the departure of FBI officials and embark here are several examples in which DHS personnel have awaited the departure of an FBI supervisor before ...
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman | Frankie Battle
Marion E. Bowman, Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni
July 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3323
Email details four (4) incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo: Three (3) unspecified; and one (1) involving dogs used against a detainee.
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Bruce J. Gebhardt
Valerie E. Caproni, Bruce J. Gebhardt, J. Stephen Tidwell, Marion E. Bowman, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Patrick W. Kelley
Use of phobias
June 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3326
Emails between Valerie Caproni, Marion Bowman and Others re: Torture Memo Found on the Internet. No attachment or content.
May 18, 2005
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran, Valerie E. Caproni