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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The document includes information on American policies on a variety of topics, including international terrorism investigations and counterterrorism, as well as information on the FBI's international terrorism responsibilities and the ...
The document includes several sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on full-field terrorism enterprise investigations, publications of terrorism enterprise organizations, and the collection ...
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on investigations of government employees, investigations of FBI employee misconduct, and administrative inquiries.
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on the authority of a special agent, investigative responsibility, and investigative authority and the First Amendment.
The document includes information on the FBI approach of rapport-based interviewing.
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
The document is a monograph written by the U.S. Department of Justice's Counterterrorism Section on the fundamental principles governing extraterritorial prosecutions, including jurisdiction, venue, and procedural rights. The monograph includes ...
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
The document includes sections of the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, including information on policies for the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense related to the investigation and prosecution of criminal ...
The document is an internal FBI memorandum that outlines the actions taken by a redacted entity for a number of different projects, including the Iran Unit, Counterintelligence Division, and the Iraq/Syria/Libya Unit.
The document outlines relevant policy issues for FBI operations with the military in the Global War on Terrorism, including the use of force, detention and interrogation, and command relationships.
The document is a memorandum regarding potentially relevant federal criminal statutes, including jurisdictional statutes and substantive statutes.
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
The document is a list of FBI affiliates, their locations, and their respective missions.
The document is an email, regarding the interrogation plan for Detainee #63. The email includes information about FBI concerns about the plan and DHS methods.
June 15, 2011
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
This document is a terrorist biographical/ psychological information questionnaire. It features questions on background, motivation, and perceptions of various terrorist groups, individuals, and actions.
This is document is titled "Tiger Team Concept" and features a page asking "Why Change?" The reasons focus on the need for more teamwork, detainee cooperation, and control of information. It features a chart with a "Daily Interrogation Goal" ...
This document, labeled "Overview," lists information about an unspecified approach.
This is an internal Pentagon document showing the internal review processes for various tasks. It consists of pictograms that illustrate the order of these processes and includes time estimates.
This is a page of handwritten notes with the title "FBI GWOT OPS." It lists broad categories of FBI Global War on Terrorism operations.
This document is a series of emails discussing whether Department of Defense interrogators can force detainees to disrobe. A NYTimes article reported that this was the case, but the officials included in the email dispute this, mentioning that it ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Nudity
This document documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 6/27/03. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but is largely redacted.
This document is mostly redacted. The synopsis states that it responds to the lead sent by Legat Riyadh to show photos of individuals involved in the RIYADHBOMB investigation to GTMO detainees.
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 5/18/02. It states that the detainee was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but seems to imply that the detainee declined to be interviewed.
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 7/18/02. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta and is mostly redacted.
Audio of an interview of Moazzem Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, conducted by the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General, as part of its report on the FBI's involvement in the mistreatment of detainees. You can listen to the audio below ...
This document contains several pages re. taking a "lessons learned" approach to agency work. Suggests that, prior to deployment overseas, the FBI should brief agents "regarding the Bureau's policy on presence during/assistance to (etc.) coercive ...
This photo most likely depicts the injured leg of Manadel Al-Jamadi, an Iraqi man captured by Navy SEALs in November 2003 and tortured and killed by CIA interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison. The gruesome details of Al-Jamadi’s abuse and killing ...
Feb. 05, 2016
Photograph
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Physical assault
These photos most likely depict the abuse of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was detained, tortured, and killed by U.S. forces near Al Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003. According to an U.S. Army investigation, U.S. officials wrapped ...
Photograph
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
This photo of what appears to be the top of a man’s head relates to the case of an Iraqi detainee who alleged he was tortured while detained by U.S. forces at an unknown facility in Tikrit, Iraq, in April and May of 2004. According to the ...
Photograph
Physical assault
This photo relates to the case of a “high value” Iraqi detainee, who, according to a report by The Constitution Project, was Ibrahim Khalid Samir al-Ani, a Baathist intelligence officer wrongly accused of having met with 9/11 hijacker Mohammed ...
Feb. 05, 2016
Photograph
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Cramped confinement
CID Report of investigation regarding alleged assault on two detainees (an uncle, aged 50-52, and his nephew, aged 19) during their transport from Camp War Eagle to Camp Cuervo, Baghdad, Iraq, on May 7, 2004. The detainees were put in the back of ...
Investigative File
Department of the Army
Physical assault, General
Questions to Hon. Les Brownlee, Acting Secretary of the Army and Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Chief of Staff of the Army from Senators Carl Levin and Bill Nelson. Questions focus on detainees' right to communicate with the International Committee ...
N/A
N/A
N/A
June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo
SERE
N/A
June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Stress positions
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/abu-zubaydah-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Abu Zubaydah
EIT
View version of this transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/majid-khan-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Majid Khan
EIT
View version of this transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/abd-al-rahim-al-nashiri-csrt-transcript
CSRT
EIT
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/mustafa-al-hawsawi-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi
EIT
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/ammar-al-baluchi-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Abd al Aziz Ali
EIT