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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May 13, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3459
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about the different names he has given to identify himself. He said used this name because of the abuse he received from interrogators in Pakistan after he was ...
May 13, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 4626
This State Department cable provides insight on a trip to Baghdad, Iraq by President of the International Committee for the Red Cross Kellenberger. Mr. Kellenberger privately shared his impressions of the situation in Iraq with U.S. Ambassador ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Kevin Edward Moley
May 14, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3606
DOS Action Slip has a post it message that reads: “S/WCI is the appropriate office for Guantanamo letters, Jeff Kern 78089”
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Jeffrey Kern
May 14, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3631
Letter from Amnesty International's Noa Kleinman, expressing concern over the non-disclosure of names/country of origin of thirteen Guantanamo detainees who were transferred for release. The letter urges the disclosure of the information. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell, Frank E. Schmelzer
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Isolation
May 14, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3632
Letter from Amnesty International's Noa Kleinman, expressing concern over the non-disclosure of names/country of origin of thirteen Guantanamo detainees who were transferred for release. The letter urges the disclosure of the information. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Isolation
May 14, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 6432
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 3/14/03 and states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta. The document is heavily redacted.
May 16, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 23

Juvenile detainee in Camp Bucca, Iraq stated that a guard from the 320th Military Police (MP) Battalion had twisted his arm while removing a piece of fruit from his hand. (The guard had accused him of stealing the fruit.) The detainee's elbow ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, General
May 16, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3290
Email to FBI officials providing logistics for their temporary duty (TDY) in Guantanamo. The email contains attachments, which lists what not to do and what to do while in Guantanamo such as: DO NOT utilize cell phones in GTMO, the Cuban ...
May 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4766
This interview is of a 2LT with the 320th Military Police Battalion. He describes his unit and how they were deployed to Iraq. He then describes his job function and the process of gathering military intelligence; identifying High Value ...
May 18, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3460
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee's interview is broken-down by date and a synopsis of the interviews follows. In addition, there is a status report on the number of detainees being held and a description of ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Frankie Battle, Thomas G. Donlon