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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| ACLU-RDI 6262
The document includes information on American policies on a variety of topics, including international terrorism investigations and counterterrorism, as well as information on the FBI's international terrorism responsibilities and the ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6263
The document includes several sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on full-field terrorism enterprise investigations, publications of terrorism enterprise organizations, and the collection ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6264
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on investigations of government employees, investigations of FBI employee misconduct, and administrative inquiries.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6265
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on the authority of a special agent, investigative responsibility, and investigative authority and the First Amendment.
June 01, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6266
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 ...
Nov. 17, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6268
The document is a memorandum sent to Valerie Caproni that includes several attachments related to extraterritorial Miranda rights warnings.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6269
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
May 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6272
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
May 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6273
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the development of a conduct policy for FBI agents participating in detainee interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. The document includes concerns from FBI agents about participating in harsh Department ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, John S. Pistole
May 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6274
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the treatment of prisoners and detainees and includes further clarifications from the Office of General Counsel on the subject. The memorandum reiterates that FBI guidelines do not allow for ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald