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 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4959
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 related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Cramped confinement, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4966
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. The agent stated the following ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4971
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. A member of the FBI’s CIRG ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4972
A member of the FBI’s CIRG Behavioral Analysis Unit who toured Guantanamo stated they never personally witnessed aggressive treatment or interrogations of Guantanamo detainees, but did hear loud music, people yelling loudly from behind closed ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4977
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 who toured ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4981
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
Sleep deprivation
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5466
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 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5459
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 that s/he "did not directly ...
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5434
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 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5435
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 ...