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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Dec. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6232
A series of emails regarding a requested chronology of events relative to FBI involvement with the issue of treatment/mistreatment of detainees. The claimed goal of the document is to use it for "briefing the Hill when/if they ask for it."
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas, Patrick W. Kelley
Jan. 28, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6237
An email regarding a final timeline relating to detainee issues. Valerie E. Caproni jokes about their "malfeasance."
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Julie F. Thomas
Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas, Patrick W. Kelley
Jan. 24, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6238
A series of emails regarding whether or not the FBI has updated its responses to a Congressional Question for the Record (QFR) regarding the FBI's involvement with and knowledge of detainee treatment.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Eleni P. Kalisch
Dec. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6468
This document is an email describing the allegations of a detainee (whose name is redacted). The detainee claims to have been abused by two FBI agents in Afghanistan who later came back to interrogate him in GTMO. Detainee claimed that the FBI ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valarie E. Caproni
Redacted; Charlene Thornton
Valerie E. Caproni, Charlene B. Thornton, Julie F. Thomas, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington
Threat
Dec. 22, 2004 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6373
This document is an email alerting recipients that, after discussions with FBI Director Mueller, FBI is sending DoD 8 interviews with agents who reported seeing actions that might constitute detainee mistreatment.
July 20, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington
Jan. 25, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6374
This document is an email from Valerie E. Caproni to redacted recipient suggesting more information on abuses that occurred in Afghanistan be added to a QFR response to Senator Leahy's inquiry.
July 20, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6097
An email included a forwarded chain of emails regarding the protocol for reporting in Afghanistan. A Special Agent may or may not have been a witness to the death of a detainee and had been interviewed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Warren T. Bamford
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6094
A chain of emails discussing the possible investigation by a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator of a FBI agent who had been present in Afghanistan when a prisoner died. The agent filled out an action report upon return, and ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Mark J. Mershon, Grant Ashley, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, J. Stephen Tidwell
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6087
An chain of emails advising an FBI official what to do with an FBI Special Agent who has been approached by an Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator regarding the capture in Afghanistan of a subject who was later killed reportedly ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Grant Ashley, Mark J. Mershon, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Patrick W. Kelley
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6056
An email, which includes two forwarded emails, between two FBI officials regarding detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The forwarded emails discuss the possible procedural paths to take in a situation where six reports from FBI personnel who were ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon