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 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3219
The emails discuss a request by Congressman Frank R. Wolf's office requesting their (FBI's) attendance at a press conference re: additional funding for gang investigations. In one email, Chris Swecker lists things to later discuss with Laura ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Chris Swecker, Laura M. Laughlin, Michael A. Mason, Thomas G. Kinnally, Joseph R. Lewis, Frank Wolf, Robert S. Mueller, Thomas M. Davis, Paul McNulty
May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3337
FBI Fax cover sheet. Document not attached.
May 18, 2005
Letter
Laura M. Laughlin
Laura M. Laughlin, John Klein, Patrick Rowan, Jennifer Levy, Brian Murtagh, Jr.
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3803
Press article from an Australian newspaper concerning David Hicks, an Australian accused of being a Taliban fighter and his detention at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
David Hicks
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3804
News artice from The Australian concerning David Hicks, an Australian accused of being a Taliban fighter and his detention at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
David Hicks, Sha Mohammed Alikhel
May 20, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3821
This document appears to be a cover sheet for a request by [redacted] to interview detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Saadia Sarkis, Harry R. Melone, Daniel B. Smith
May 20, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4255
State Department cable concerning Israel/Palestinian issues, i.e the Gaza Strip; Allegations of Abuse at Guantanamo; and The way forward for Iraq. The cable also stats that on April, 26, 2004 a government of Bahrain delegation visited Guantanamo ...
Dec. 20, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
May 20, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 6182
The document is a transcript of proceedings from the United States Senate's Committee on the Judiciary. The transcript is a record of FBI Director Robert Mueller's statement regarding FBI oversight, terrorism and other topics.
Jan. 15, 2010
Interview (Transcript)
Robert S. Mueller, Orrin Hatch, Charles E. Grassley, Arlen Specter, Jeff Sessions, John Cornyn, Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Russell Dana Feingold, Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Frank James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6012
The document is a news article written by NBC News Correspondent Campbell Brown regarding possible prisoner abuse at Battlefield Interrogation Facilities operated by Delta Force in Iraq.
Other
Campbell Brown | NBC News
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Barbara G. Fast
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6378
This document lists "Issues to be discussed," including not compromising FBI ethics in a mission. It also continues a mission analysis featuring questions about interrogation and interviews, detention facility participation, command and control, ...
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6379
This memo from the SSA states that military interrogation techniques and methods are currently under internal review and are receiving major media attention regarding detainee deaths. It states that "hard approach techniques" have been ...
May 17, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation