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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Nov. 08, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6104
The document is a mostly redacted cover sheet followed by a CIRG after-action report for the FBI deployment to Quandahar, Afghanistan from 12/11/2001 through 02/11/2002 in support of the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) sponsored by the U.S. ...
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Robert S. Mueller
Oct. 17, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6102
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the complaint by an FBI agent concerning detainee ...
Apr. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6101
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of the name of the agent who stated that there was an executive order dealing with treatment of Iraq prisoners as well as a document that discusses DoD interrogators misrepresenting ...
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Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole | Gary M. Bald | Cassandra M. Chandler | Eleni P. Kalisch | Robert S. Mueller
Mar. 30, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6095
The document is an internal FBI email regarding a visit to Guantanamo and tour of Camp Delta by four staffers from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole
Mar. 23, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6093
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Washington Post article on FBI detainee records, specifically that the FBI release was not reviewed by the DoJ.
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Cassandra M. Chandler, Eleni P. Kalisch, Valerie E. Caproni
Mar. 14, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6092
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the Office of Inspector General's initiation of an investigation of detainee abuse, stating that the Director's Office has instructed INSD and OCG to ensure the accounting and uniformity of all ...
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Patrick W. Kelley
Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle
Mar. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6091
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of detainee related documents under the ACLU FOIA request.
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Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Mar. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6090
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the appropriate procedures for FBI divisions to follow when producing documents for the Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.
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John S. Pistole
Mar. 10, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6089
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of additional records that fall within the parameters of the ACLU FOIA search, specifically that such records shall be processed and accounted for in the FOIA litigation as a group.
Mar. 10, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6088
The document is an internal FBI email regarding draft appropriate procedures for FBI divisions to follow when producing documents for the Office of Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.