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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Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6170
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of EC's from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, the military's interrogation techniques and strategies, and his experiences serving in ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Donald J. Ryder, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael B. Steinbach
Mohammed al Qahtani
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6160
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, John Ashcroft, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Raymond Mey, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Robert S. Mueller, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Paul Wolfowitz, Willie T. Hulon, Michael J. Heimbach
Feb. 26, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6157
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Andy Arena, regarding his responsibilities as Section Chief of International Terrorism Operations as well as three areas and issues related to detainees.
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, David E. Nahmias, Bruce Swartz, Dale L. Watson, Robert S. Mueller, Stephen R. Wiley, Marion E. Bowman, George J. Tenet, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bruce J. Gebhardt
Feb. 26, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6151
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Laura Parsky, regarding her work related to the issues at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay as well as concerns that she raised to the detainee Policy Coordinating ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Laura H. Parsky, Christopher A. Wray, John Richter, Bruce Swartz, Michael Chertoff, John B. Bellinger, III, David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Pasquale D'Amuro, Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Chuck Rosenberg, Anthony Fortune, James B. Comey
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6138
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Pat D'Amuro, regarding his knowledge about the document exploitation group deployed to Afghanistan as well as the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, John D. Ashcroft, George Tenet, Larry Thompson, Michael E. Dunlavey , Marion E. Bowman, Larry A. Mefford, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Andrew Arena, Valerie E. Caproni, Dale L. Watson
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 23, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6130
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Gary Bald, regarding his knowledge of detainee interrogations and abuses as well as his role in developing guidelines for FBI conduct in detainee interrogations. He states ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, David E. Nahmias, Stuart Levey, Marion E. Bowman, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, John S. Pistole, John McCain, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Jan. 06, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6073
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the FBI's lack of involvement in detainee abuse and the claim that the FBI Director did not need to be specifically aware of any abuse allegations.
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington
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