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.

Search Result (6709)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
| ACLU-RDI 4515
Draft document with attachments describing "permissible interrogation techniques" and necessary approval for those techniques. The document also mentions waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
| ACLU-RDI 4516
Heavily redacted typed draft outline. References interrogation techniques and waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
Jan. 25, 2007 | ACLU-RDI 4512
Redacted CIA document referencing enhanced interrogation techniques and waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Nov. 03, 2006 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4513
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
June 17, 2007 | ACLU-RDI 4509
Memo prepared by the CIA General Counsel to the CIA Office of the Inspector General contained legal analysis and conclusions.
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Apr. 08, 2007 | ACLU-RDI 4510
Document created by CIA component that includes a discussion of enhanced interrogation techniques.
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Nov. 03, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 4511
Redacted draft of CIA report outlining general concepts and proposals.
May 23, 2008 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4506
DOJ letter regarding ACLU, et al., v. Department of Defense, et al., which states that the CIA has re-reviewed documents concerning waterboarding and produced redacted versions of some of those documents. Letter also mentions that on May 12, ...
May 23, 2008
Letter, Judicial
Michael J. Garcia | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Melanca D. Clark
Michael J. Garcia, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
June 18, 2008 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4507
Heavily redacted memo from DCI to Nat'l Sec. Advisor (4pgs) and memo from GC to DCI (1pg) with routers. Refers to DOJ's 2002 authorization for the CIA to employ certain techniques on certain high-value detainees (HVDs), and mentions waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
George Tenet
George J. Tenet
Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Jan. 14, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 4508
Memo to the CIA Office of the Inspector General providing comments for its Special Review (17pg), with attachments (26pg).
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding