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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July 26, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 440
Mission Training Plan for the Mobility Platoon, Engineer Company, Brigade Combat Team.
July 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3812
DOS Cover Sheet re: Request to Interview Detainees at Guantanamo
July 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4244
State Department cable with talking points concerning an inquiry by a nation in to the status of their citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable states; 1) The U.S. government cannot address specific questions about specific detainees at this ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
July 24, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4560

A draft psychological assessment of Abu Zubaydah faxed to John Yoo from the CIA.  The assessment provides background information ("for at least a decade, subject has lived and worked within an environment that has condoned, nurtured, ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Psychological)
John C. Yoo
John C. Yoo
Abu Zubaydah
July 24, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4615

This draft psychological assessment of Abu Zubaydah discusses his background, personality, emotional and mental skills, strengths, motivations, and future worldview, among other things. The document refers to the use of "initial ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Psychological)
John C. Yoo
John C. Yoo
Abu Zubaydah
July 23, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3388
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee expressed that he was not sleeping well and was on medication. Summary of his medical records revealed he was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and depression; and ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
July 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4376
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip with the handwritten note "looks like the ball is in petitioner's court."
Dec. 23, 2004
Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | James H. Thessin | David W. Bowker
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, David W. Bowker
July 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3483
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about his conditions he stated that the guards at Camp Delta are not bad. Camp Delta is a prison and sometimes, the guards are "not good" with the detainees. That is ...
July 19, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6777
This CIA cable describes Abu Zubaydah's condition in detention as of July 19, 2002. The cable states that the next stage of Zubaydah's detention will include confinement, dressing changes, walling and a head immobilizer, as requested by IC SERE ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Walling, Cramped confinement, Isolation, Other, Physical assault
July 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3163
Email from FBI WMD Operations Unit to [Party Redacted] re: Suicide Bomber Profile; Information Guide - Trends - Tactics - Techniques. Contents redacted.