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. 23, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2370
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 23 dec 02. Heavily redacted. "Detainee seen by medic at 21:30 hours. His vitals were normal. Detainee taken to the latrine and exercised a couple of times during the night".
Dec. 23, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2371
The index lists this document as: Memo for the Record 23 Dec 02. Heavily redacted. "Detainee seen by the medic, vitals normal. Also taken to the latrine and exercised".
Dec. 26, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3929
This letter from Kenneth Roth the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, to President Bush concerns a Washington Post article dated December 26, 2002 alleging of torture of suspected Al-Qaeda detainees held in U.S. custody. Mr. Roth states "if ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Kenneth Roth
George W. Bush | Colin L. Powell | Donald H. Rumsfeld | Condoleeza Rice
George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice
Dec. 26, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4708
Letter from Kenneth Roth the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch to President George W. Bush concerning the accusations of torture and mistreatment of detainees published in an article in the Washington Post newspaper on December 26, 2002. ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Kenneth Roth
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Dec. 27, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2378
The index lists this document as: Shift Log. The memo discusses the detainee being offered water, refusing it, going to the latrine and being exercised. The detainee was asked if he was going to try to commit suicide, the detainee stated "no", ...
Jan. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 922
Minutes of January 3, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, W. Scott Cummings, Adolph McQueen
Jan. 03, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6779
This is an email (with sender and receiver redacted) sending a final draft of the CIA High Value Target Interrogation and Exploitation (HVTIE) Team Training document. The postscript note in the email mentions Mitchell and Jessen by name and ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Email
James Mitchell , Bruce Jessen
SERE
Jan. 03, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 6786
This e-mail includes a draft of interrogation training documents for a CIA course with a note concerning Dr. James Mitchell and Dr. Bruce Jessen's role in an upcoming presentation. The draft notes are redacted and are labeled "CIA High Value ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Email
James Mitchell , Bruce Jessen
SERE
Jan. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3424
Interview of Detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo. Detainee was shown photos of certain persons, but denied knowing any of them. The detainee then went on to say "He does not like how the detainees are being treated at Camp Delta, saying the strip ...
Jan. 07, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6209
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the legality or propriety of interview techniques being used at Guantanamo Bay.