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. 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
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3356
FBI memo concerning claims that DOD interrogators have impersonated FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Dec. 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3361
The author of the email expresses his/her concern over the impersonation of FBI SSAs by DoD interrogators. Noting that if the information regarding the treatment/interrogation of detainees is made public, the FBI "DOD interrogators will not be ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle | Arthur M. Cummings, II | Gary M. Bald
Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington
Nov. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3364
Synopsis of memo: requested observations/recommendations of The National Center for the Analysis of Violent 'Crime (NCAVC) concerning the day-to-day operation of the GTMO Project.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle
Apr. 10, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3368
First page of an FBI Memo entitled " GTMO-INTEL GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA OO:MIAMI MAJOR CASE 188".
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle | Stephen R. Wiley
Marion E. Bowman | Hector M. Pesquera | C. Frank Figliuzzi
Raymond Mey, Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi
May 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3369
This memo also includes a table and emails. The general synopsis of the memo is it provides the statement of an SA's observations while at Abu Graib Prison. In the memo, SA states that during his time at the "Abu Graib Prison his role was to only ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Raymond Mey, Monte C. Strait, Michael J. Folmar, Barbara Wells, Russell D. Robinson, Paula J. Wendell , Amy Jo Lyons, Randall D. Parsons, Steven C. McCraw, Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Thomas J. Harrington, M. Chris Briese
May 18, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3460
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee's interview is broken-down by date and a synopsis of the interviews follows. In addition, there is a status report on the number of detainees being held and a description of ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Frankie Battle, Thomas G. Donlon
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3485
An email between FBI officials discussing how the FBI should approach interrogations in Afghanistan, and specifically discussing the need for guidance. The email focuses in part on the differing approaches of the military and the FBI to ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3314

Emails between Valerie Caproni to T.J. Harrington and Otrhers re: Instructions for FBI Interrogators at Guantanamo. The emails goes in to detail on how FBI agents serving at Guantanamo should conduct themselves and not deviate from Bureau ...

Mar. 21, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Valerie E. Caproni, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, Andrew Arena, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bruce Swartz, Alice Fisher