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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July 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6121
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding possible allegations of abuse being made against FBI agents by the military.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw
Mar. 14, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6092
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of an investigation of detainee abuse, stating that the Director's Office has instructed INSD and OCG to ensure the accounting and uniformity of all ...
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle
Mar. 09, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6086
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the attached draft JTF-GTMO Executive Summary related to the interrogations of ISN (Internment Serial Number) 063. The memorandum details the detainment and interrogation of Detainee Maad al ...
Non-legal Memo, Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Willie T. Hulon, Thomas J. Harrington, Michael P. Kortan, Cassandra M. Chandler, Jay W. Hood
Mohammed al Qahtani
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
Dec. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6064
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of a full investigation into the FBI's handling of allegations of detainee abuse, including any FBI personnel who may have either witnessed or ...
Email
John S. Pistole
Robert S. Mueller
John S. Pistole, Robert S. Mueller, Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, Willie T. Hulon, Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Toni M. Fogle, Thomas J. Harrington
Dec. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6063
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a detainee's allegation of experiencing abusive treatment from two FBI agents in Afghanistan.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Willie T. Hulon, Robert S. Mueller, Eleni P. Kalisch, Cassandra M. Chandler, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
May 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6059
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a Washington Post report in which it was alleged that the FBI was involved in abuses at the Abu Ghuraib Prison.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller | Cassandra M. Chandler | Eleni P. Kalisch | Kenneth L. Wainstein | Steven C. McCraw | Bruce J. Gebhardt | M. Chris Briese | Thomas J. Harrington
M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Thomas J. Harrington, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Steven C. McCraw, Bruce J. Gebhardt
May 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6055
The document is series of an internal FBI emails regarding whether any FBI personnel had firsthand knowledge of any abuse of detainees at Abu Ghuraib Prison. The emails conclude that no FBI personnel had any such knowledge.
Email
John S. Pistole
Robert S. Mueller | Bruce J. Gebhardt
Gary M. Bald, Frankie Battle, M. Chris Briese, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole, Michael P. Kortan
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6048
An email thread between FBI officials regarding FBI procedural guidelines on Department of Defense requests to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6045
Email thread between FBI officials regarding a Department of Defense military investigator's request to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths. One email cites that a redacted Special Agent was ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle, Patrick W. Kelley