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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Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6160
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, John Ashcroft, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Raymond Mey, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Robert S. Mueller, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Paul Wolfowitz, Willie T. Hulon, Michael J. Heimbach
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6172
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Larry Thompson, regarding his knowledge of concerns about overseas detainee treatment, his advocacy for civilian control of Iraqi prisons, and discussions about the status ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Larry Thompson, John D. Ashcroft, Richard Lee Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, Pasquale D'Amuro, Michael Chertoff, David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Bruce Swartz, Robert S. Mueller
John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6171
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of Department of Defense interrogation techniques used on Detainee #63 at Guantanamo Bay as well as the FBI's involvement.
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John Ashcroft, Robert S. Mueller, David E. Nahmias
Mohammed al Qahtani, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 26, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6157
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Andy Arena, regarding his responsibilities as Section Chief of International Terrorism Operations as well as three areas and issues related to detainees.
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, David E. Nahmias, Bruce Swartz, Dale L. Watson, Robert S. Mueller, Stephen R. Wiley, Marion E. Bowman, George J. Tenet, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Bruce J. Gebhardt
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6155
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience, the FBI's intelligence gathering capacity and criminal option viability, and his participation in the review of Office of Legal ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Robert S. Mueller
Moazzam Begg, Feroz Ali Abassi
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6149
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about legal issues raised about the interrogation techniques employed in a redacted detainee's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. The ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Robert S. Mueller, Alice Fisher, Michael Chertoff, Christopher A. Wray, Larry Thompson, John Ashcroft, David Ayres, Patrick Philbin, Whit Cobb, Condoleeza Rice, Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6146
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about issues related to the treatment or interrogation of military detainees. He states that he regularly raised concerns about the ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Whit Cobb, Marshall Billingslea, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Stuart Levey, John B. Bellinger, III, Christopher A. Wray, Michael Chertoff, Larry Thompson, James B. Comey, John Ashcroft, Arthur M. Cummings, II, John S. Pistole, Robert S. Mueller, David N. Kelley
Moazzam Begg
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6140
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Michael Chertoff, regarding his knowledge about FBI involvement in the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques for detainees as well as the role and interest ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Michael Chertoff, Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, John Ashcroft, Larry Thompson, Jay S. Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John B. Bellinger, III
Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6138
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Pat D'Amuro, regarding his knowledge about the document exploitation group deployed to Afghanistan as well as the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, John D. Ashcroft, George Tenet, Larry Thompson, Michael E. Dunlavey , Marion E. Bowman, Larry A. Mefford, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Andrew Arena, Valerie E. Caproni, Dale L. Watson
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah