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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May 18, 2009 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4608

A list of records that were contemporaneous and derivative to the CIA's destruction of the interrogation videotapes.  The records listed describe the contents of the destroyed tapes.  The list was produced to the ACLU and the Court ...

May 18, 2009
Judicial (Vaughn Declaration/Index)
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
May 01, 2009 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 4606

A letter from the CIA's Office of General Counsel to Judge Hellerstein attaching a Vaughn index of records from August 2002 that describe the contents of the interrogation videotapes destroyed by the CIA.  The letter explains that the ...

May 01, 2009
Letter, Judicial
John L. McPherson
Alvin K. Hellerstein
John L. McPherson, Alvin K. Hellerstein
May 01, 2009 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 4607

A Vaughn index of CIA records, including cables sent from the field to headquarters, relating to the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah.  The CIA stated that the index includes the first half of the records created in August 2002 that describe ...

May 01, 2009
Judicial (Vaughn Declaration/Index)
John L. McPherson
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
Abu Zubaydah
Apr. 29, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5181
Cover letter from the FBI to the ACLU accompanying the release of 804 pages of records by the FBI.
Nov. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5182
Cover letter from Carol F. Ochoa, Office of Oversight & Review, to Charlene B. Thornton Office concerning release of 304 documents pertaining to Guantanamo; 19 documents pertaining to Abu Ghraib; and one CD containing photos, and specifying ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter, Judicial
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Carol F. Ochoa, Charlene B. Thornton
Apr. 24, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5180
Cover letter from FBI to ACLU accompanying the release of 804 pages by the FBI.
Mar. 06, 2009 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4603
Letter from the Department of Justice to Judge Hellerstein proposing a schedule of production for certain Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents to be provided to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The letter addresses the issues of; ...
Mar. 06, 2009
Letter, Judicial
Lev L. Dassin | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Alvin K. Hellerstein
Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner, Lev L. Dassin, John H. Durham, Alvin K. Hellerstein
Mar. 06, 2009 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4604
This Department of Justice production pursuant to ACLU v. DOD, No. 1:04-CV-4151 (S.D.N.Y.). The list is of videotapes that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) either had or has in its possession and are either available or destroyed.
Mar. 02, 2009 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4602

A letter from the DOJ to Judge Hellerstein regarding the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes and the ACLU's motion to hold the CIA in contempt for that destruction.

Mar. 02, 2009
Letter, Judicial
Lev L. Dassin | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Alvin K. Hellerstein
John H. Durham, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner, Lev L. Dassin, Alvin K. Hellerstein
May 23, 2008 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4506
DOJ letter regarding ACLU, et al., v. Department of Defense, et al., which states that the CIA has re-reviewed documents concerning waterboarding and produced redacted versions of some of those documents. Letter also mentions that on May 12, ...
May 23, 2008
Letter, Judicial
Michael J. Garcia | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Melanca D. Clark
Michael J. Garcia, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding