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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The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the Counterterrorism Division to the Director's Office, regarding a request for FBI executive management to approve an Operations Order that details mission operations and requirements for ...
An email including a forwarded chain of emails regarding FBI agents who have been listed as witnesses in an investigation surrounding allegations of prisoner abuse. The chain shows confusion as to whether or not the agents participated in ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Steven C. McCraw
The document is a notice describing an individual last seen in the Fallujah, Iraq area who is wanted for questioning. The document also includes an email about a lost officer who is in Fallujah.
The document is a form to request and authorize temporary duty travel for Department of Defense personnel, filled out for a redacted entity's service in Bishek, Kyrgyzstan, Bagram, Afghanistan, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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
The document is a series of documents related to the service of a Major deployed as the Officer in Charge of the DH HAT Team. The document includes a personal letter from a member of the OIC's team, certificate of release/discharge from active ...
This email, including a forwarded chain of emails, says that the CTD, or perhaps OGC, should advise personnel pre-deployment of their responsibility to report actions that may be a violation of law and/or prescribed procedure. File name: ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
The document includes information about pages deleted from this production of documents by the FBI as well as which exemptions were used by the FBI to withhold these documents.
The document is a letter from the Records Management Division of the FBI to the National Security Project of the ACLU, regarding the final release of documents related to FOIA request 1129744 - specifically Office of Inspector General SITREPS.
Letter
Alexander Abdo
This email provides a consideration that FBI officials reiterate FBI personnel's responsibility to report observations of misconduct prior to their deployment in order to avoid failure to report, and, thus possible misconduct and/or criminal ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr, Toni M. Fogle