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 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3345
FBI memo providing the Washington Field Office with an update on an investigation of abuse of detainees in Iraq.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner
July 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3346
FBI memo providing the Washington Field Office with an update on an investigation of the 800th Military Police abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Alex J. Turner
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3347
Charles Cunningham and FBI official discuss an update on the Washington Field Office's handling pf certain Iraq abuse cases. Charles Cunningham states that "this is a bit of a hot potato and I don't want to be the one who did not make something ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3348
Email is forwarding information re: Army CID Request for Interview of FBI personnel. The author states that "We will not open an Internal Investigation matter case on them unless we receive some evidence that they [FBI personnel] were involved in ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Steven C. McCraw | Toni M. Fogle
Steven C. McCraw, Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3349
Email is a follow-up on an Army CID request to interview FBI agents concerning possible information on detainee abuse allegations.
May 18, 2005
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3350
Email is to coordinate bringing an FBI agent in for an interview concerning information regarding detainee abuse allegations.
May 18, 2005
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3351
Email between FBI officials concerning a new OPR matter. Email is heavily redacted without any information regarding the OPR matter.
May 18, 2005
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Mar. 25, 2003 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 3352
Memo from Navy NCIS to Personnel Touring Through Guantanamo re: Guantanamo Procedures and Duties Upon Arrival, i.e. Upon arrival at GTMO, your on-ground NCAVC counterpart will introduce you to appropriate FBI, CITF, DHS, CTC, and other United ...
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3353
Memo states that the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) was to provide behavioral assistance to the ongoing intelligence gathering mission involving the Detainees being held at Guantanamo.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Andrew Arena
Aug. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3354
Counterterrorism Division Briefing, FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC on 07/26/2002 for Pasquale D'Amuro and his staff
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley | Frankie Battle
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Pasquale D'Amuro, Thomas Carey