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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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
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 933
This email is to ensure that all FBI personnel touring through Guantanamo Bay and who participate in interrogations of detainees adhere to the Bureaus policies on the treatment of suspects and their own personal conduct when conducting ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Arthur M. Cummings, II | Frankie Battle
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Andrew Arena, Laura H. Parsky, Michael E. Dunlavey , Bruce Swartz, Alice Fisher
May 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2826

A string of emails regarding Abu Ghraib Prison abuse allegation forwarded from Tomas J. Harrington to Valerie Caproni noting that the FBI may be asked about Abu Ghraib and that FBI Director Mueller and General Ricardo Sanchez are aware of the ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni | Frankie Battle | Thomas J. Harrington | Gary M. Bald
Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Robert S. Mueller, Dana Biehl, Bruce A. Pagel, Ricardo Sanchez
Apr. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2827

An entirely redacted FBI memo relating to a shooting involving a Special Agent in Afghanistan.  The memo refers to Case ID Number: 315N-HQ-C1406946-E.

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle | Kenneth McCabe
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Kenneth McCabe, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Warren T. Bamford, Brenton L. Mosher, Edward J. Barrett
May 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2829

Cable summarizes the results of 14 interviews of FBI personnel who participated in detainee interviews at Abu Ghraib between October and December 2003. Attached to the cable is a classified chart of FBI personnel who conducted interviews at ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington | Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Brenton L. Mosher, Warren T. Bamford, Edward J. Barrett
Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2841

Contents redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller
May 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2848
Emails concerning the FBI Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU) assessment of the interrogation techniques used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The email seeks to discuss the interrogation techniques "in detail." Reference is made to Stephen A. ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington | Frankie Battle
Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Stephen A. Cambone
Nudity
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2849
Email thread discussing possibility of FBI abuse at Abu Ghraib. One email says "Bottom line is FBI personnel have not been involved in any methods of interrogation that deviate from our policy [redacted]. The specific guidance we have given has ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Chris Swecker, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2870
Memorandum from the FBI Counterterrorism Unit and the Military Liaison and Detainee Unit sent internally to the FBI Counterterrorism Unit. The contents are entirely redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
May 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2877
Email forwarding another email containing two Washington Post articles about Guantanamo interrogation policies, May 21, 2004. The article states "Rumsfeld Approved Harsh Procedures At Guantanamo, Officials Say" and "FBI Chief Tells of ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Janice K. Fedarcyk
Frankie Battle
Janice K. Fedarcyk, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Lawrence Di Rita, William J. Haynes, II, Robert S. Mueller, Patrick Leahy, Charles E. Schumer