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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Indicates an incident wherein a detainee at Guantanamo was the subject of a "Forced Cell Extraction". The email states "the incident described by the detainee matches up with an instance wherein the detainee was the subject of a Forced Cell ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Jay W. Hood
Other
Concerns discussing an update on Guantanamo with SC Fogle. The email states "where are we with this? Do we need to get Mr. Thompson involved? I'd like to get these interviews done."
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle, Larry Thompson
Email details approval for the Guantanamo facility by Rear Admiral James M. McGarrah in charge of the Office of Administrative Review for Detained Enenmy Combatants
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Gordon R. England, James M. McGarrah
Detainee issue. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
FBI status update to Valerie Caproni on responses from FBI agents assigned to Guantanamo re: Detainee abuse
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Donald W. Thompson, Jr
EC attachment on detainees. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
Email desribes the Final, approved EC for FBI field agents being deployed to Iraq. Attachements not provided.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Author states that "issues have arisen [sic] regarding the interrogation techniques employed by the military at Guantanamo." And that DOJ was not pursuing any interviews outside the scope of Iraq at this time, but may as the military ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Email From Patrick Kelley To Valerie Caproni re: FBI is not involved in an Investigastion of the Abuse of an Un-named Iraqi Prisioner, AUSA Brian Murtagh is Investigating the Matter
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni
Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, Brian Murtagh, Jr.