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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Nov. 19, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6242
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding interrogation techniques and strategies to be employed in interviews with Detainee #63 at Guantanamo Bay. The email details the parties participating in the development of the interrogation ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Judd Alan Gregg
Mohammed al Qahtani
Nov. 16, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6243
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of counterproductive interrogation techniques on Guantanamo detainees by the Department of Homeland Security and the process by which the FBI may raise concerns to the Department of Defense.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Frankie Battle
Dec. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6250
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the collection and compilation of any and all Counterterrorism Division documents related to detainees at Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and particularly documentation of any abuse of detainees ...
Nov. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6251
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding constitutional issues overseas - specifically the application of the 4th and 5th Amendments to military detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Nov. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6252
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update on Guantanamo legal processes and the authorization to continue detainee interrogation under Article 17 of the Geneva Convention of the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
June 15, 2011
Email
Frankie Battle, Julie F. Thomas
Nov. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6253
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the FBI's most current interrogation policy for detainees
Nov. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6254
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the best course of action to be taken with regards to a detainee. The decision reached is to have the detainee shifted over to Abu Ghuraib Prison.
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese
Oct. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6255
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding FBI involvement in overseas interrogations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Oct. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6256
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the drafting and provision of an outline of issues, including requests for FBI agents to be interviewed to to testify regarding their participation in detainee interrogations.
Oct. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6257
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the decision of federal judge Kollar-Kotelly that terror suspects held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay must be allowed to meet with lawyers and that their conversations cannot be monitored.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly