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 14, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6368
This email concerns the practices and effectiveness of Tiger Teams, which appear to be FBI interrogation units. It mentions that interviews of detainees can range from 1 to 6.5 hours, and emphasizes patience and continuity in interrogation ...
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6359
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques.
Dec. 04, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6311
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques, and the FBI's participation.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Dec. 03, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6310
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques. The author of the email, Marion Bowman, states that the FBI does not approve of the harsh interrogation techniques being used ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Pasquale D'Amuro, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Robert S. Mueller
Dec. 17, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6309
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman
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
Nov. 19, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6242
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding interrogation techniques and strategies to be employed in interviews with Detainee #63 at Guantanamo Bay. The email details the parties participating in the development of the interrogation ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Judd Alan Gregg
Mohammed al Qahtani
Feb. 27, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6054
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the advice of rights issues at Guantanamo Bay, specifically the possibility of policy changes.
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4881
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4880
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles