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 email, regarding the lack of written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding written guidance given to FBI agents about standing clear of coercive interrogation techniques that are outside of FBI policy. The email includes information about an EC written by the FBI ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the dissemination of information and intelligence gathered from the interrogation of HVD-1 (Saddam Hussein).
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese, Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a meeting with the DAG's Office and the Criminal Division related to HVD-1 (Saddam Hussein).
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the procedure by which to document interviews with HVD-1 (Saddam Hussein). Significant portions of the document are redacted.
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese
The document is an internal FBI memorandum from EAD John Pistole to the Counterterrorism Division, regarding the request of HVD-1's (Saddam Hussein) Interrogation Team to question the subject without reading him the Miranda rights, to videotape ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Marion E. Bowman
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the rights granted to EPWs under the Geneva III Convention should the detaining power choose to institute judicial proceedings (criminal prosecution).
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding Saddam Hussein. The contents of the email have been almost entirely redacted.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Marion E. Bowman
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether the FBI's operations in Iraq were primarily for intelligence-gathering or also for the collection of evidence for prosecutions. The email also includes information on a case in which an FBI ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, M. Chris Briese, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on policies for the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense related to the investigation and prosecution of criminal ...