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 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3385
The detainee was interviewed at Camp Delta, and stated that three to four weeks ago, at Camp X-ray, an unknown number of guards "entered his cell, unprovoked, and started spitting and cursing at him. The guards called him a 'son of a bitch' and ...
May 18, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
June 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4942
A detainee interviewed at Camp Delta, Guantanamo stated that approximately three to four weeks earlier, while at Camp X-Ray US soldiers entered his cell and began to beat him without cause or reason. He claims they called him a “son of a bitch” ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap, Isolation
June 05, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1867
Memo describes the observations of a FBI agent, who observed the improper handling of a detainee in an interrogation room at Camp Delta. The agent was in a video observation room and saw a detainee on his knees rubbing a cramp out of his leg ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stress positions, Other Humiliation
June 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3651
DOS Memo confirming a meeting with the ICRC on June 06.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frank E. Schmelzer , P. Michael McKinley, John Allen Buche, Nicholas M. Miscione, Douglas Hunter
June 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4435
This email from JoAnn Dolan forwards a letter received by the U.S. Mission from an attorney representing a Guantanamo Detainee. The letter requests that the detainee be given access to counsel and to have the charges and legal justification for ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Linda Watt | Brent E. Blaschke | Priscilla G. Hernandez | Alexander Karagiannis | Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Linda Watt, Brent E. Blaschke , Eliana Davidson
June 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4656
Email from JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email from the London mission from containing a letter from an attorney representing a detainee held at Guantanamo. The email from Ms. Dolan to Ms. Davidson is redacted, but the letter attached below.
Jan. 02, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Eliana Davidson
June 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4240
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan, and policy guidance for ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
June 01, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2437
Powerpoint presentation gives details of the Geneva Conventions, and the 5 S's (Search, Silence, Segregate, Safeguard and Speed to the rear).
June 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6772
This message includes notes on the attached revised interrogation plan, and discusses the role of the CIA's Operational Assessment Division in implementing this plan.
Dec. 20, 2016
Notes
SERE
June 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6730
This CIA cable states that a scenario occurred when IC SERE Psychologists entered Abu Zubaydah's cell to begin an isolation phase. The cable is heavily redacted.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT