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. 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
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6056
An email, which includes two forwarded emails, between two FBI officials regarding detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The forwarded emails discuss the possible procedural paths to take in a situation where six reports from FBI personnel who were ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Toni M. Fogle, Mark J. Mershon
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6048
An email thread between FBI officials regarding FBI procedural guidelines on Department of Defense requests to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington
Oct. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6045
Email thread between FBI officials regarding a Department of Defense military investigator's request to interview FBI Special Agents as witnesses to allegations of detainee abuse or deaths. One email cites that a redacted Special Agent was ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Toni M. Fogle, Patrick W. Kelley
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6050
Two forwarded emails documenting the redacted author receiving a letter from Army CID requesting a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. This request is part of an investigation of allegations of abuse against detainees ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Marion E. Bowman, Elaine N. Lammert, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Joseph M. Demarest, Jr.
Oct. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6043
An email discussing the Army's requests for an FBI internal report describing abuses witnessed by the FBI and a list of FBI employees who performed interrogations at Abu Gharib. The NY Times mentioned the internal report in an article on ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Nov. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6031
An email about scheduling for an interview with the Army.
Nov. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6030
An email exchange between two FBI officials regarding Army interviews of FBI agents who may be witnesses to a prisoner's allegations of abuse.
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Nov. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6029
An email between two FBI officials regarding the scheduling of an interview with the Army.