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 24, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2751

Handwritten note. Content: "Pulled this from Buces (?) files FYI."

May 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2816
Memorandum from the FBI that provides the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board ON March 30, 2004. The FBI's repatriation evaluations are attached. Contents of the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Patrick Rowan
Patrick Rowan
May 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4065
Emails include a New York Times article entitled "U.S. Disputed Protected Status of Iraq Inmates." The article discusses the American government's adamant position that many detainees in Iraq are not entitled to the full protections of the Geneva ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
Edward R. Cummings
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Robert K. Harris, Edward R. Cummings, Thomas Malionek, Lance L. Smith, Darlyce M. Eley, William J. Gehron, Marc Warren
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Isolation, Nudity
May 24, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5047

This May 24, 2004 Newsweek article discusses the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. It describes legal justifications for the Bush administration's interrogation program.

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George W. Bush, Jane Harman, Lindsey Graham, Larry DiRita, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Cofer Black, Colin L. Powell, John C. Yoo, William Howard Taft, IV, Alberto R. Gonzales, Rick Baccus, Richard B. Myers, William J. Haynes, II, Geoffrey D. Miller, Stephen A. Cambone, William G. Boykin, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Paul Wayne Bergrin, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault
May 24, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5084
CIA printout of Third Geneva Convention, as available on the Yale Law Avalon Project's website.
May 24, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5086
CIA printed copy of Fourth Geneva Convention as stored on the website of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.
May 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6349
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an update about Valerie Caproni's interview of a redacted entity related to his observations from Guantanamo Bay.
| ACLU-RDI
May 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 791
Interviewee was assigned to AG on October 18/19, 2003 as an interrogator in the Detainee Assessment Branch. Recalled an incident with [redacted], where he grabbed a detainee on the shoulder and move him within the interrogation cell. Stated ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Stress positions
May 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 832
Interviewee's Procedure 15 interview is an addendum to his prior interview (Interviewee's title and length of assignment are unknown). Interviewee stated that he observed a detainee hooded and handcuffed to a railing. When he inquired about the ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay, Ricardo Sanchez
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity