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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Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6085
Chain of emails discussing whether or not FBI agents receive Department of Justice lawyer representation during interviews with non-FBI personnel when the potential of being charged with criminal responsibility exists. The inquiring FBI official ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon | Robert D. Grant
Sept. 30, 2013 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6080
An email regarding the interview of an FBI Special Agent by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service/IG as an witness to abuse of a detainee by Special Forces in Afghanistan. The agent did not witness any abuse and provided a statement and other ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Mark J. Mershon | Robert D. Grant | Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon, Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6062
An email which includes three forwarded emails about who has "ownership" of the Army investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse; an email quotes, "What a mess." The third forwarded email concerns protocols about Army CID interviewing FBI ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon | Charlene B. Thornton | Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, Charlene B. Thornton, Robert D. Grant
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6058
An email between FBI officials which includes a forwarded email in order to show recipients how officials have, "been trying to balance the issues for personnel and the Bureau--while we've been waiting for some guidance." The forwarded email ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon | Charlene B. Thornton | Robert D. Grant
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6057
An email between FBI officials which includes a forwarded email in order to show recipients how officials have, "been trying to balance the issues for personnel and the Bureau--while we've been waiting for some guidance." The forwarded email ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Mark J. Mershon | Charlene B. Thornton | Robert D. Grant
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3324
Email from Mark Mershon alerts Chris Swecker about a report of an unspecified matter of detainee abuse.
May 18, 2005
Email
Chris Swecker
Mark J. Mershon
Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker, Mark J. Mershon, Charles J. Cunningham , Charles Phalen, David W. Szady, Eleni P. Kalisch, Jana D. Monroe, Joseph R. Lewis, Maureen Baginski, M. Chris Briese, Willie T. Hulon