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 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6378
This document lists "Issues to be discussed," including not compromising FBI ethics in a mission. It also continues a mission analysis featuring questions about interrogation and interviews, detention facility participation, command and control, ...
Oct. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6372
This document is a memorandum alerting Toni Fogle of the FBI's Internal Affairs Division of an investigation into the death of a detainee, Haji Sher Mohammad, and requesting to interview a special agent who administered a gunshot residue test to ...
Non-legal Memo
Toni Fogle
Haji Sher Mohammad
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6361
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding a request to establish a pre-deployment training program for FBI personnel who deploy to Afghanistan. The memorandum includes a cost analysis as well as a preliminary draft syllabus.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Willie T. Hulon, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Nov. 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6360
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the mission overview of the FBI-Afghanistan Detachment based on the CTD Afghanistan Assessment Team (AAT) findings. The memorandum also includes information on detainee interviews and support ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, J. Stephen Tidwell, Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Willie T. Hulon, Thomas J. Harrington, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Apr. 10, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6358
The document is the cover page of a memorandum, regarding Guantanamo intelligence and Major Case 188.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
James B. Comey, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, Frankie Battle
Oct. 29, 2004 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6350
The document is a memorandum sent from the Office of Oversight and Review in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to the FBI Inspection Division, regarding a request for preliminary information by the OIG. The information will be used to ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carol F. Ochoa
Charlene B. Thornton
Charlene B. Thornton, Carol F. Ochoa
Feb. 28, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6337
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the reporting process for detainee abuse allegations at Guantanamo Bay. The memorandum includes information on the different tracks for reporting, including legal and operations.
Sept. 11, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6336
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding guidelines for FBI operations in Iraq, designed especially for the FBI's Iraq Task Force (ITF), located in Doha, Qatar. The memorandum also includes information on command and control, ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Nov. 16, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6333
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the results of interviews of FBI Special Agents conducted by representatives of the United States Army Criminal Investigation command.
Oct. 21, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 6329
The document is a Department of the Army memorandum for the Investigative Operation Division, Headquarters, United States Army Criminal Investigative Command (USACIDC). The memorandum includes information about allegations of abuse made by a ...