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. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6281
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the procedure by which to document interviews with HVD-1 (Saddam Hussein). Significant portions of the document are redacted.
June 15, 2011
Email
M. Chris Briese
Jan. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6282
The document is an internal FBI memorandum from EAD John Pistole to the Counterterrorism Division, regarding the request of HVD-1's (Saddam Hussein) Interrogation Team to question the subject without reading him the Miranda rights, to videotape ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 16, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6284
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the rights granted to EPWs under the Geneva III Convention should the detaining power choose to institute judicial proceedings (criminal prosecution).
Jan. 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6285
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding Saddam Hussein. The contents of the email have been almost entirely redacted.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, M. Chris Briese, Marion E. Bowman
Jan. 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6288
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether the FBI's operations in Iraq were primarily for intelligence-gathering or also for the collection of evidence for prosecutions. The email also includes information on a case in which an FBI ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, M. Chris Briese, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald
Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6293
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the detention and interrogation of detainee Mohameou Ould Slahi. The document is heavily redacted.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Arthur M. Cummings, II
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mar. 04, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6296
The document is an internal FBI memorandum,outlining administrative policy changes to the Office of Professional Responsibility's (OPR) and the Inspection Division's (INSD) Delegated Investigation/Adjudication (DIA) program.
Jan. 21, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6297
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the focus, scope, and procedure of military interviews being conducted of FBI personnel who reported witnessing aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo.
Oct. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6298
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a request from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) for a list of names of FBI personnel who served at Abu Ghuraib Prison as a part of abuse allegation investigations.
June 15, 2011
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Marion E. Bowman
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6300
The document is an internal FBI email that has been heavily redacted. The email states that interviews have begun.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, John S. Pistole, Patrick W. Kelley