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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May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3107
Emails concerning a briefing paper on FBI role in interrogations. Email discusses a DOJ prep meeting and needing the briefing paper before that meeting. One email states "If, during the conduct of any interview, events occur that, in the opinion ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran | Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3109
Email from Thomas J. Harrington to Valerie Caproni re: BOC E-mail, Priority, January 24, 2004 [redacted] Allegations regarding Abu Ghurayb Prison. Mr. Harrington forwarded an e-mail to Caproni, he believed the e-mail contained "interesting ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle, Dana Biehl, Bruce A. Pagel, Ricardo Sanchez
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3113

Emails between m Valerie E. Caproni to to Steven C. McGraw re: List of agents at Abu Ghraib Prison October 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003. Heavily redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
M. Chris Briese | Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle | Marion E. Bowman | John F. Curran | Steven C. McCraw
Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, John F. Curran, Marion E. Bowman
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3117

Email between Valerie Caproni, M.C. Briese and T.J. Harrington re: Names of agents who've been TDY'd to Iraq. Email also mentions a need to know the names of all agents who conducted interrogations at Abu Ghurayb, Iraq during October 1, ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington | M. Chris Briese | Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle
May 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3120
E-mails between John S. Pistole, T.J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, and Others re: FBI operations in Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq. Emails discuss a general concern for FBI operations and interrogation techniques used. Also, there is a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni | Albert T. Church | Frankie Battle | Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, John S. Pistole, Albert T. Church, Frankie Battle
Mar. 03, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3123
FBI Memo re: Objectives for the scheduled deployment of FBI personnel to Guantanamo. Memo is from Counter terrorism to Counter terrorism. [Initial document is completely redacted, with exception to the paragraph titles]. The second memo ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Marcus C. Thomas, Michael P. Clifford, John F. Curran, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Feb. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3124
Emails between Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: Travel to GTMO. A general in GTMO is objecting to an FBI task in GTMO. Admiral James McGarrah requests a "high level" FBI person to come to GTMO for a problem that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman | John F. Curran
James M. McGarrah, Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, David W. Szady, M. Chris Briese, Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3129
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman and Others re: GTMO tribunal schedule. Emails refer to latest "GTMO CSRT List." Concerns GTMO tribunal list and status of detainee tribunals at GTMO. The list is attached and ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni | Marion E. Bowman
Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3136
May 27, 2004 Iraq Daily Situation Report. John Pistole is asking Valerie Caproni to review the "2nd paragraph" of the report "re: the techniques" and to discuss it with him and Gary Bald. Email is heavily redacted as to content.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni | Gary M. Bald
John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Maureen Baginski, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, Kenneth L. Wainstein
Apr. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3187
Email to Frankie Battle in response to an email sent by the NCAVC. The author states that this email contains two (2) EC's and they have sent the "main email to both the Miami Division and Counterterrorism". The author also states that they have ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle