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. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6410
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he observed a variety of torture, ...
Dec. 07, 2010
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Family/others, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Threat, Environmental manipulation
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
Feb. 23, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6130
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Gary Bald, regarding his knowledge of detainee interrogations and abuses as well as his role in developing guidelines for FBI conduct in detainee interrogations. He states ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, David E. Nahmias, Stuart Levey, Marion E. Bowman, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, John S. Pistole, John McCain, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Feb. 23, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6411
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with FBI's representative to CENTCOM (Army's Central Command). It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he ...
Feb. 06, 2009 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5927
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Muhammad Fahdil Khamat Marush, Air Force Theater Hospital Joint Base (AFTHJB), Balad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Marush had a previous penetrating head injury prior to being taken in to ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mohammad Fahdil Khamat Marush
Feb. 02, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5582
This is a CID Report in to the death of Muhammad Najib Abu-Wafa Ali, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on September 1, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Ali was witnessed falling when exiting his ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muhammad Najib Abu-Wafa Ali
Jan. 22, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5514
This is a CID investigation into the death of Nawab Buntangyar, a combatant in Afghanistan. Mr. Buntangyar was engaging US & Afghani Security Forces (ASF) near Fire Base (FB) Chamkani, Afghanistan on October 13, 2006. Mr. Buntangyar was given ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Nawab Buntangyar
Physical assault
Jan. 16, 2009 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5575
This is a CID investigation into the death of Abdul Wali, a detainee at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan on December 19, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Wali was in his cell when he experienced a medical emergency. The soldier who responded ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdul Wali
Jan. 15, 2009 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4547

An OLC memo stating that "the purpose of this memorandum is to confirm that certain propositions stated in several opinions issued by the Office of Legal Counsel in 2001-2003 respecting the allocation of authorities between the President ...

Mar. 02, 2009
Legal Memo
Steven G. Bradbury
Steven G. Bradbury, William J. Haynes, II, Jay S. Bybee, Daniel J. Bryant, Patrick Philbin, John C. Yoo, Alberto R. Gonzales, Edward M. Kennedy, Richard J. Durbin, John B. Bellinger, III, C. Kevin Marshall, Bradley T. Smith, David S. Kris
Jan. 15, 2009 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6583
This January 15, 2009 OLC memo from Steven Bradbury discusses the reasons for the withdrawal of nine OLC memos that were issued in the aftermath of 9/11, specifically why the propositions in these memos are not consistent with the current views ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
Steven G. Bradbury