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 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5195
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, a motor vehicle operator for a total of ...
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5196
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, a motor vehicle operator for a total of ...
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5187
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A). The responding agent witnessed interrogations on an almost ...
| ACLU-RDI 5200
Note accompanying hard copies of EC related to Guantanamo; requesting recipient to have EC's serialized.
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5185
Document reports that an inspector requested reports on behavior from personnel previously assigned to Guantanamo; found that SSA [redacted] observed no aggressive treatment.
| ACLU-RDI 5183
Chart displaying the categories "Location", "Date", "Serial", "Interviewers", and "Interviewee", and showing 25 entries, all of which display "Abu Ghraib" in the "Location" category.
May 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5184
Memo indicating that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is closing investigation. The memo refers to a March 15, 2001 letter sent to Senator Warren Rudman by General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, and two electronic ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 5178
Email from Inspections Division seeking response from FBI employees who served at GTMO after 9/11/01. The email specifically requests a response from employees who "observed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on ...
| ACLU-RDI 5175
Chart displaying the categories "Location", "Date", "Serial", "Interviewers", and "Interviewee", and showing 25 entries, all of which display "Abu Ghraib" in the "Location" category.
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5275
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent reported observing no aggressive or ...