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. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6220
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the imminent release of a letter written by Thomas Harrington on the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6239
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a TRIM document received from ODAG McAtamney. The TRIM document is a memorandum regarding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees with pending habeas corpus proceedings.
June 15, 2011
Email
James A. McAtamney, Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Tracey North, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Colin L. Powell
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6240
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a TRIM document that includes a recent report entitled "Ending Secret Detentions."
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Tracey North, John S. Pistole
Nov. 16, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6243
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of counterproductive interrogation techniques on Guantanamo detainees by the Department of Homeland Security and the process by which the FBI may raise concerns to the Department of Defense.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Frankie Battle
Feb. 18, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6244
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 communications between FBI employees and any other U.S. ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington
Oct. 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6257
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the decision of federal judge Kollar-Kotelly that terror suspects held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay must be allowed to meet with lawyers and that their conversations cannot be monitored.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Oct. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6258
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding advice related to FBI personnel conduct in extraterritorial situations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Nov. 13, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6260
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding contacts at the Department of Defense and the National Security council for the delivery of an Amnesty International report.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6272
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6273
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. The document includes concerns from FBI agents about participating in harsh Department ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, John S. Pistole