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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A considerably redacted email about agents in Afghanistan and Iraq and further advice on interrogations.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
A considerably redacted email regarding whether or not the FBI should proceed with the interview of the detainee.
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of extreme and abusive interrogation techniques against detainees by the military as well as the procedures for reporting such techniques to the Department of Defense.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Mohammed al Qahtani
A series of emails regarding whether hard copies of the FBI Legal Handbook have been issued to agents in the past years, or whether only digital issues have been issued. The emails also note that testimony before Congress should stress that ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Maureen Baginski
The document is an internal FBI memorandum from the FBI General Counsel, regarding legal advice and opinions about the treatment of prisoners and detainees by FBI personnel. The memorandum is almost entirely redacted, but includes information on ...
Jan. 15, 2010
Legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni
A series of forwarded emails between FBI officials regarding the status of statements for a hearing. One email notes, "We do NOT do Miranda overseas generally--this is contrary to our policy right?"
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Valerie Caproni to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the definition of the abuse and/or mistreatment of prisoners as well as what type of conduct should and should not be reported.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Robert S. Mueller
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update on two prisoner abuse cases that are pending.
Jan. 15, 2010
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Valerie E. Caproni, Robert A. Spencer
This document is an internal memo sent to the FBI Director's Office from the Office of Inspections as a request for designation of the investigation into detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay as an INSD Special Inquiry. The document notes that out of ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni
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 ...