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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FBI | ACLU-RDI 3026
FBI talking points memo re: FBI participation in overseas investigations. Mostly redacted
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3027
FBI Deleted Information Sheet
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3024
FBI Memo concerning FBI personal's knowledge and documentation of detainee and prisoner abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Antonio Taguba
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity, Other
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3025
Testimony of Valerie Caproni, GC, before the House Intelligence Committee 7/14/04
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Jane Harman
June 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3021

Email refers to request by TJ Harrington to speak to General Miller regarding the impersonation of FBI interrogators and requests specific dates and details.

[Page 2 of this document was later released in less-redacted form, and is ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Mar. 09, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 3022
Criminal Investigative Command referral to FBI re: Identification form for military detainee - Iraq. Mostly redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3023
Contents Completely Redacted Under FOIA Exemption
Jan. 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 3019
DOD email concering the outcome of a June 2003 investigation of an incident where Defence Intellience Aagency officials impersonated FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Jan. 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 3020
Email questioning the correctness of using of non-FBI personal to impersonate FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo. The email states "When I was in the unit in December, I thought we agreed to take everything out of the EC that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3017

FBI letter from T. J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI to Gen. Ryder Major General US Army Criminal Investigation Command describing three (3) situations observed by FBI agents of highly aggressive interrogation techniques/assault ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Thomas J. Harrington
Donald J. Ryder
Thomas J. Harrington, Donald J. Ryder, Marion E. Bowman, Robert L. Dietz, Daniel Dell'Orto
Physical assault, Sexual, Threat, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious