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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Aug. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3278
Memo from CIRG-Crisis Management Unit (CMU) to CIRG. CIRG presented an operations and resource briefing to FBI Assistant Director (AD) Pasquale J. D'Amuro and his staff. The memo provides a summary of the presentation to the AD [contents ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Pasquale D'Amuro, Frankie Battle, Thomas Carey
Aug. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3354
Counterterrorism Division Briefing, FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC on 07/26/2002 for Pasquale D'Amuro and his staff
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley | Frankie Battle
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Pasquale D'Amuro, Thomas Carey
Aug. 07, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3893
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on Detention Issues 8/8
Aug. 07, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6656
This cable provides a report of day 4 of the cycle of interrogation carried out on detainee Abu Zubaydah on August 7, 2002. It includes details of interrogators using a combination of waterboarding, walling, cramped confinement, and insult slaps ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
Waterboarding, Face slap or insult slap, Walling, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity, Use of water, Physical assault
Aug. 06, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 646
DOD Memo re: Confidentiality Policy for Interactions Between Health Care Providers and Enemy Persons Under U.S. Control at Guantanamo Bay.
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Richard A. Huck
Aug. 06, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6752
This cable details the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah that took place on August 6, 2002. This interrogation included the use of walling, waterboarding "numerous times", attention grab, insult slap, confinement box, and hooding. The cable states ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Walling, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Aug. 05, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6751
This cable details the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah that took place on August 5, 2002 at the which the IC SERE psychologists were present. This interrogation included the use of walling, the water board, attention grab, confinement box, hooding, ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Attention grasp, Walling, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Aug. 04, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6723
This August 4, 2002 cable details the first and second sessions of the aggressive phase of interrogation of Abu Zubaydah. Throughout these sessions Abu Zubaydah continued to maintain his position that he had no additional information.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Facial hold, Walling, Cramped confinement, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Aug. 04, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6739
This CIA cable describes the phase of Abu Zubaydah's interrogation and states that he underwent confinement, walling and the waterboard during his initial cycle of interrogations. The cable also describes his general behavior in his cell as well ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Walling, Cramped confinement
Aug. 03, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6732
This August 3, 2002 cable provides authorization to implement more aggressive techniques in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, including the use of the water board and mock burial, as described in this cable. The cable also provides information ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
John A. Rizzo, John B. Bellinger, III, John C. Yoo, Michael Chertoff, Daniel B. Levin
Abu Zubaydah
SERE, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Facial hold, Walling, Threat, Assault/death, Mock Burial, Family/others, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation