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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Sept. 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6340
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a Memo of Understanding between the FBI and the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF).
Feb. 18, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6341
The document is a chart that depicts the functions and organization of the FBI Office of General Counsel.
June 15, 2011
Chart/List
Kenneth L. Wainstein, Patrick W. Kelley, Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, Julie F. Thomas
Oct. 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6342
The document is an email, regarding an update on Detainee #63. The email includes information on the most recent Interrogation Plan for the detainee.
June 15, 2011
Email
Frankie Battle
Mohammed al Qahtani
Nov. 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6343
The document is an email, regarding Detainee #63 and setting up a meeting about the FBI's involvement in the detainee's interrogation.
June 15, 2011
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
| ACLU-RDI 6344
The document is an email, regarding the interrogation plan for Detainee #63. The email includes information about FBI concerns about the plan and DHS methods.
June 15, 2011
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
Nov. 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6345
The document is an email, regarding a brief requested from HQ.
July 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6346
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a letter to be sent by the FBI Office of General Counsel to the DoD detailing previously unreported detainee abuse allegations. In one email, an agent, whose name is redacted, speaks passionately ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, J. Stephen Tidwell
Jan. 14, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6347
The document is an email, regarding an investigation by Brigadier General John Furlow into allegations of abuse by military interrogators, and includes a section about interviews of FBI agents.
June 15, 2011
Email
John T. Furlow, J. Stephen Tidwell, Craig C. King
Jan. 14, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6348
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding military investigators reviewing allegations of abuse against military personnel and their requested interviews of FBI personnel.
May 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6349
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update about Valerie Caproni's interview of a redacted entity related to his observations from Guantanamo Bay.