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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Medical records of an unidentified Iraqi civilian male. Medical conditions included, tibia fracture; gunshot wounds to the lower extremities (complained of pain in right hip and right knee). Medical procedure included, blood transfusion and an ...
This memo serves as an update on events and happenings at Guantanamo Detention facility. It is noted that Senator Cornyn (R-TX) visited Guantanamo on Monday to view US detainee detention facilities and conditions. Also it reports that there are ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
John Cornyn
FBI emails regarding interviewing strategies and insights on interrogation issues at Guantanamo. The email states "We met several interrogators...who we had dinner with. We discussed areas of mutual interests it pertains to interviewing ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Arthur M. Cummings, II
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee agreed to talk about four (4) subjects concerning Camp Delta: 1) The possible rapes of detainees as a form of punishment; 2) Detainees being searched in the groin area and ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee appeared to be in good health, but complained about the treatment of other detainees when asked about his own condition, the detainee would not elaborate except to say that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee did not initially want to participate in the interview because of what he called "the mistreatment of his brother Muslims in the camp". He decided he would not look at the ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee said that he is in good health, he is fed well, or at least as well as the other detainees, and the guards are treating him with respect. However, the detainee expressed concerns ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee made some general complaints about how the guards at the Camp treated the Koran (Qu'ran), but did not specify other than saying some gaurds had thrown it on the floor. The ...
Medical records of an Iraqi civilian with bilateral Fractures to Lower Extremities; Broken legs from Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA). Medical conditions included, shattered legs and hurt shoulder. Medical treatment included, nailing of left and ...
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. Two interviews were conducted by Special Agents with the FBI, a Special Agent with the Air Force (AFOSI) and a Special Agent with NCIS, also, a linguist was present to translate in both ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other