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. 18, 2004 | DOJ | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 4983
An exchange of letters between Senator Charles Grassley and Assistant Attorney General William E. Moschella regarding the OLC's August 2002 memo defining torture. Senator Grassley initiated the exchange by forwarding to AAG Moschella for response ...
Letter
William E. Moschella, Charles E. Grassley
Mar. 11, 2011 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5824
This is a cover letter from Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to Alex Abdo, of the American Civil Liberties Union, concerning FOIA document production re: ACLU v. CIA 10 Civ. 7092 (AKH).
Letter, Other
Preet Bharara
Alexander Abdo
Preet Bharara, Tara M. LaMorte
Jan. 20, 2011 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5823
Letter from Preet Bharara , US Attorney for the So. Dist. of New York, to Alex Abdo, Attorneyfor the ACLU, concerning document production under FOIA.
Letter, Other
Preet Bharara
Alexander Abdo
Preet Bharara, Tara M. LaMorte
CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1870
The detainee being interviewed states that that detainee in Cell #39 on his Block is the leader of the Arab detainees and he is organizing them to resist efforts to be interrogated. He states that this detainee in Cell #39 speaks English and "He ...
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
Dec. 30, 2011 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6129
The document is a letter from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General to the ACLU's National Security Project, regarding the ACLU's April 22nd, 2008 FOIA request. The letter is a cover letter for summaries of interviews conducted ...
Letter
William Blier
Jameel Jaffer
Andrew Arena, Gary M. Bald, Michael Chertoff, Pasquale D'Amuro, Alice Fisher, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Larry Thompson, David Ayres
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6189
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
Email
Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Michael P. Kortan, Grant Ashley
Physical assault, General
June 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6190
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
Email
Eleni P. Kalisch
Robert S. Mueller
Eleni P. Kalisch, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Keith B. Alexander, Lowell Jacoby
Jose Padilla
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6177
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with detainee Moazzem Begg, regarding his general knowledge of incarceration in Egypt, his allegations of being threatened by two FBI agents, and his experiences being detained and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Moazzam Begg
Feb. 23, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6175
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Ayres, regarding his knowledge of FBI intelligence-gathering strategies and interrogation techniques, discussions of different intelligence-gathering approaches, and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David Ayres, John Ashcroft, David E. Nahmias
Jose Padilla, Mohamedou Ould Slahi , Moazzam Begg