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 6361
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding a request to establish a pre-deployment training program for FBI personnel who deploy to Afghanistan. The memorandum includes a cost analysis as well as a preliminary draft syllabus.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Willie T. Hulon, Arthur M. Cummings, II
June 15, 2011 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6362
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
Jan. 08, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6363
The document is a daily schedule for an Iraq pre-deployment briefing.
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6378
This document lists "Issues to be discussed," including not compromising FBI ethics in a mission. It also continues a mission analysis featuring questions about interrogation and interviews, detention facility participation, command and control, ...
Oct. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6382
This is an email chain focusing on the prison transfer and potential of prosecution for one detainee. An official raises broader questions of what it means to participate in the interrogation of a detainee and how the FBI can not implicate ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Sept. 01, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6383
This document is a heavily redacted sworn statement by an FBI Special Agent as part of "an administrative inquiry regarding an allegation that SA [redacted] engaged in possible prisoner abuse while on military deployment in Iraq."
Oct. 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6384
This document is a memo regarding an investigation into allegations of detainee abuse. Investigation was initiated due to a letter from a detainee, alleging that he was "taken from Camp Cropper to an unknown location during the beginning of Jun ...
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6386
This document is a page listing pages withheld from current release, as well as reasons for the withholdings.
Oct. 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6387
This document is a email chain discussing recommendations concerning interviews and interrogations made in a former email.
May 17, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6388
This document is a list featuring descriptions of various abuses that occurred throughout Afghanistan. Most of the abuses involved slapping and punching.
June 15, 2011
Chart/List
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Facial hold