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 3105
This email concerns preparing for an upcoming House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence hearing and preparation of the testimony to be given. One of the emails in this chain states "We didn't actually interview (redacted detainee) at Camp Echo ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole
Jan. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3112
FBI Memo from EAD Pistole to Counter-terrorism, attn: Gary M. Bald, M.Chris Briese, and Valerie E. Caproni re: 315E-HQ-1448534, 01/27/2004. Interrogation team, Baghdad, seeks authority to question the subject without reading the subject warnings ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
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
July 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3125

Emails between Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: US DOJ Executive Secretariat correspondence. Urges the AG to do all he can to ensure regular unrestricted access by the International Committee of the Red ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni | John F. Curran | Marion E. Bowman | Thomas J. Harrington | Bruce J. Gebhardt | John S. Pistole
Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Jonathan I. Solomon, John S. Pistole, Maureen Baginski, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Eleni P. Kalisch, Glenn A. Fine, John D. Ashcroft, Chris Swecker, Bruce J. Gebhardt
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
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3276
Memo from National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) (Miami and Philadelphia) summarizing protocol and the mission of personnel dispatched to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of providing behavioral assistance to the ongoing ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole
June 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3279
Documentation of Critical Incident Response Group/Behavioral Assessment Unit on-site assessment of the interview process at Guantanamo. Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Cassandra M. Chandler
Cassandra M. Chandler, David W. Szady, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole, Stephen R. Wiley, Mark A. Hilts, Kenneth H. Senser, Thomas F. Lewis II
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6160
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, John Ashcroft, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Raymond Mey, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Robert S. Mueller, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Paul Wolfowitz, Willie T. Hulon, Michael J. Heimbach
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6189
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Michael P. Kortan, Grant Ashley
Physical assault, General
June 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6190
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Robert S. Mueller
Eleni P. Kalisch, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell Jacoby
Jose Padilla