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. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6098
An email sent to Executive Assistant Directors and Assistant Directors at FBIHQ asking for materials relevant to the ACLU's FOIA request of documents/records created from 9/12/2004 to 5/25/2004 that pertain to the treatment of detainees held ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, John S. Pistole, Jonathan I. Solomon, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, David W. Szady, Chris Swecker, John S. Hooks Jr., J. Stephen Tidwell, Jana D. Monroe
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6097
An email included a forwarded chain of emails regarding the protocol for reporting in Afghanistan. A Special Agent may or may not have been a witness to the death of a detainee and had been interviewed by the Naval Criminal Investigative Services ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Robert D. Grant
Toni M. Fogle
Robert D. Grant, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Warren T. Bamford
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6094
A chain of emails discussing the possible investigation by a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigator of a FBI agent who had been present in Afghanistan when a prisoner died. The agent filled out an action report upon return, and ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Mark J. Mershon, Grant Ashley, John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, J. Stephen Tidwell
Oct. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6087
An chain of emails advising an FBI official what to do with an FBI Special Agent who has been approached by an Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigator regarding the capture in Afghanistan of a subject who was later killed reportedly ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Grant Ashley, Mark J. Mershon, Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Patrick W. Kelley
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. 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6075
An email, including a chain of forwarded emails, concerning an Naval Criminal Investigative Service interview of a Las Vegas FBI Special Agent regarding an incident in which the FBI agent is alleged to have been present during an interview ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Nov. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6071
An email, including forwarded emails, regarding the legality of another agency requesting to interview FBI personnel. The author of one of the forwarded emails states that whenever this type of request is made, both the agent and FBI are to be ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle
Oct. 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6066
An email including two forwarded emails about the, "potential issues... regarding employee rights and liabilities," of a previous handling of an Army request for a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. One of the email ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Mark J. Mershon
Toni M. Fogle | Robert D. Grant | Charlene B. Thornton
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Charlene B. Thornton, Mark J. Mershon, Elaine N. Lammert, Marion E. Bowman
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