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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Jan. 07, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6134
A cover letter enclosing material related to an October 29, 2004 request. Materials include: positive and negative responses to AD McGraw's July 9, 2004 email; one CD containing photographs; list of agents at Guantanamo Bay; an electronic ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Carol F. Ochoa, Charlene B. Thornton
Jan. 08, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 3548

A series of blog posts by a former OLC lawyer, Marty Lederman, discussing the difference between the DOJ's memo on torture from August 2002 and the memo on torture from December 30, 2004 (ACLU-RDI 3547).  The posts conclude that the Bush ...

June 01, 2005
Other
John C. Yoo, Daniel B. Levin, Alberto R. Gonzales, Richard J. Durbin
Waterboarding, Mock Burial, Rendition, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Religious, Use of water, Threat, Environmental manipulation, Other Humiliation
Jan. 10, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2345
In a summarized witness statement, the Joint Interrogation Group (JIG) Chief at Guantanamo Bay discusses a variety of incidents of abuse alleged to have taken place under his command. With respect to interrogators' impersonation of FBI agents, he ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John T. Furlow
John T. Furlow, Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Jan. 10, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6194
A chain of six emails regarding a military defense investigator's request to the FBI's Counterterrorism Division for FBI emails about detainee abuse. The investigator had been appointed to work on the defense team for one of the Abu Gharib prison ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Julie F. Thomas
Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4415
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4445
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4471
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4482
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 13, 2005 | DON | ACLU-RDI 4857
Presentation from the Naval Inspector General (IG), discussing the Naval IG's review of detainee information released under the FOIA to the ACLU.
Jan. 05, 2007
Other
Gordon R. England, John T. Furlow, Albert T. Church, Ronald A. Route
Jan. 14, 2005 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5825
This is a letter from the Acting CIA Assistant Inspector General for Investigations to a doctor for potentially retaining them as a medical expert in the upcoming trial of David Anthony Passaro. Mr. Passaro was a CIA contractor charged with four ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Letter
David Anthony Passaro, David A. Passaro