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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This email includes a response to an FBI Inspection Division response request to all employees who observed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques during their time at Guantanamo Bay. This response states that an employee ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
A cover letter enclosing material related to an October 29, 2004 request. Materials include: positive and negative responses to AD McGraw's July 9, 2004 email; one CD containing photographs; list of agents at Guantanamo Bay; an electronic ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Carol F. Ochoa, Charlene B. Thornton
AN FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet showing one page had been deleted.
An email regarding a forwarded letter. The letter states that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is conducting an investigation into allegations that two FBI agents were involved in the assault of a civilian detained at the Baghdad ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw, Toni M. Fogle
Physical assault
This email includes a chain of forwarded emails expressing an Army CID's desire to interview FBI special agents who are witnesses in an investigation surrounding allegations of prisoner abuse. The prisoner alleges to have been tortured in "an act ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Use of water, Physical assault, Stress positions, Other
An email including a forwarded chain of emails regarding FBI agents who have been listed as witnesses in an investigation surrounding allegations of prisoner abuse. The chain shows confusion as to whether or not the agents participated in ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Steven C. McCraw
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding possible allegations of abuse being made against FBI agents by the military.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Thomas J. Harrington, Steven C. McCraw
This email, including a forwarded chain of emails, says that the CTD, or perhaps OGC, should advise personnel pre-deployment of their responsibility to report actions that may be a violation of law and/or prescribed procedure. File name: ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
This email provides a consideration that FBI officials reiterate FBI personnel's responsibility to report observations of misconduct prior to their deployment in order to avoid failure to report, and, thus possible misconduct and/or criminal ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr, Toni M. Fogle
An email where the author, Toni M. Fogle, references the forwarded email to show, "This is how I've asked my guys to handle this situation." The situation being when an Army CID requests interviews with FBI agents.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Donald W. Thompson, Jr