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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July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3370
Fax cover letter to Adrien Silas from [redacted] regarding Valerie Caproni's July 14, 2004 hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Some names are illegible.
May 18, 2005
Letter
Adrien Silas
Adrien Silas, Valerie E. Caproni, Jack L. Goldsmith, Steven G. Bradbury, Daniel B. Levin, Rachel Brand
July 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4788
Emails discuss mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo (GTMO), the author would like the recipient, who was assigned to GTMO, to respond with any information related to detainee abuse.
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4793

An email from an FBI agent responding to a question about alleged abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The agent stated that he was stationed at Guantanamo Bay from June 2, 2003 to July 17, 2004. During the agent's time at GTMO, he/she occasionally ...

Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Yussef Mohammed Mubarak al Shihri
Use of water, Other, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Other
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4900
FBI agent who toured through Camp Delta, Guantanamo states he did not participate in, nor did he observe any FBI personnel conduct any interviews that were aggressive or inconsistent with FBI protocols. The memo states "did not witness or observe ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Religious
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4909
FBI email to FBI field agents encouraging them to report incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. One (1) agent responded that he observed a detainee in a "stress position", but the details are not in his email response.
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Stress positions
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4970
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. While touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4978
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. ThisFBI agent who toured ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4979
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5463
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent reported observing no aggressive ...
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5430
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, who conducted interviews with detainees, ...