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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Dec. 17, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1937
Heavily redacted. Refers to a legal assessment made by CITF-SJA [Criminal Investigation Task Force - Staff Judge Advocate] of interrogation tactics and proposed Standard Operating Procedures for Guantanamo
Dec. 17, 2002 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1949
This memo is to provide guidance and clarity as to the interview & interrogation techniques permitted to be used on Guantanamo detainees. There is a limiting principle outlined and general observations on the use and effectiveness of SERE as a ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
SERE
Dec. 17, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2376
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 17 Dec 02. Heavily redacted and the first page appears to be missing. The readable parts of the document state that the detainee was seen by medical personnel; he was given food & water;was taken to ...
Dec. 17, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2377
The index lists this document as: Interrogation Log 17 Dec 02. It appears to be missing the firs or more pages and is redacted in many places. The document details the checking on the detainee and his consumption of food & water; use of the ...
Dec. 17, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2421
DoD memo providing guidance on answering inquiries concerning detainee deaths at the Bagram Detention Facility. This document is related to RDI 2418.
Dec. 17, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3185
Email concerning Guantanamo Matters. Contents mostly redacted.
Dec. 17, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6309
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman
Dec. 18, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 921
December 17, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen
Dec. 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3422
Detainee interviewed at Guantanamo Bay. Detainee was unwilling to be interviewed any more thanhe already had been. When told he could provide information to determine if other detainees should be released, he replied that they should. There was a ...
Dec. 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3423
This document is a one page excerpt of ACLU RDI 3422. Detainee was not willing to be interviewed, but when reminded that he was willing to discuss the islamic faith. The detainee than said "that there is only one true God and that everyone, ...