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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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
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6245
The document details guidelines for conducting Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigations, including delegated investigation/adjudication cases (DIAs), delegated investigations (Dis), and non-delegated cases (NDs). The document ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6247
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6248
The document is a memorandum that includes information on military commissions, four Guantanamo detainees, FBI cooperation, and unresolved issues, including transportation and witness preparation.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, David Hicks, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul
June 02, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6249
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 conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington
Dec. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6250
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the collection and compilation of any and all Counterterrorism Division documents related to detainees at Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and particularly documentation of any abuse of detainees ...
Nov. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6251
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding constitutional issues overseas - specifically the application of the 4th and 5th Amendments to military detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Nov. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6252
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update on Guantanamo legal processes and the authorization to continue detainee interrogation under Article 17 of the Geneva Convention of the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
June 15, 2011
Email
Frankie Battle, Julie F. Thomas
Nov. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6253
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the FBI's most current interrogation policy for detainees
Nov. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6254
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the best course of action to be taken with regards to a detainee. The decision reached is to have the detainee shifted over to Abu Ghuraib Prison.
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese