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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June 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2582
Sworn statement discussing detention procedures and interrogations. States, "The [redacted] was fairly aggressive in their interrogations, but I don't believe they did anything abusive." Mentions the presence of a dog at the facility.
June 17, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2722
Emails between Mark Corallo, Bryan Sierra, David Nahmias, and others with the subject line "Passaro". The text of the email chain is entirely redacted.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Mark Corallo
David E. Nahmias | Bryan Sierra | Frank Whitney | James Candelmo | Bobby Higdon
David E. Nahmias, Bryan Sierra, Mark Corallo, Frank D. Whitney, James A. Candelmo, Robert J. Higdon Jr.
June 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3539
Email contents are redacted.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3834
This DOS memo appears to be talking points for a John Dimitri Negroponte interview with Jim Lehrer on topics, including detainee abuse, detainee policy, and Saddam Hussein.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer , John Dimitri Negroponte
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3844
Email response redacted. Original email includes a press release from the ICRC on the topic of Iraq and what the Geneva Convention says about the future of persons deprived of their freedom.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steven A. Solomon
Ed Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Piper A. Campbell | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Joel Danies | Kevin Edward Moley | Magda S. Siekert | Joseph P. Cassidy | Thomas H. Casey | Katherine L. Starr | Michael T. Peay | Lynn L. Cassel
Steven A. Solomon, Edward R. Cummings, Frank E. Schmelzer , Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Magda S. Siekert, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Joel D. Danies, Joseph P. Cassidy, Thomas H. Casey, Katherine L. Starr, Michael T. Peay, Lynn L. Cassel, Kevin Edward Moley, Melissa R. Davis, David Shark, Joseph S. McGinnis, Richard L. Greene, John D. Hamill
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4464
This State Department memo is a partial of a larger memo entitled "Interrogations and Army Regulations". and states "The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War provides that "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4674
State Department cover sheet for delivery of documents re: PCC Meeting on Detainees
June 08, 2005
Other
John Bellinger
JoAnn J. Dolan | Pierre-Richard Prosper | Anthony Fortune
John B. Bellinger, III, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, Anthony Fortune, Jay Alan Liotta, Bruce Swartz, Diane E. Beaver, Eliana Davidson, Patrick Rowan
June 17, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6451
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
June 17, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6452
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
June 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 665
Sworn statement of a Sergeant First Class (E7 - SFC) with A Company; 202 Military Intelligence Battalion assigned to Abu Ghraib Prison in October 2003. The SFC stated that "The document flow on detainees worked as follows. The interrogators would ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of phobias, Nudity