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.
This photo most likely depicts the injured leg of Manadel Al-Jamadi, an Iraqi man captured by Navy SEALs in November 2003 and tortured and killed by CIA interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison. The gruesome details of Al-Jamadi’s abuse and killing ...
These photos most likely depict the abuse of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was detained, tortured, and killed by U.S. forces near Al Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003. According to an U.S. Army investigation, U.S. officials wrapped ...
This photo of what appears to be the top of a man’s head relates to the case of an Iraqi detainee who alleged he was tortured while detained by U.S. forces at an unknown facility in Tikrit, Iraq, in April and May of 2004. According to the ...
This document is an email to redacted FBI officials seeking guidance regarding military request to interview Special Agents in the field in Afghanistan on detainee abuse and deaths. Patrick Kelley responds that National Security Law Branch is ...
This document is a memo in reference to a NCIS request for the FBI to release information on all people who have had interaction with two detainees who have alleged abuse at the hands of military personnel and their interpreters. The detainees' ...
This document is an email describing the allegations of a detainee (whose name is redacted). The detainee claims to have been abused by two FBI agents in Afghanistan who later came back to interrogate him in GTMO. Detainee claimed that the FBI ...
This document is an email describing the allegations of a detainee (whose name is redacted). The detainee claims to have been abused by two FBI agents in Afghanistan who later came back to interrogate him in GTMO. Detainee claimed that the FBI ...
This document is a cover page of an FBI report regarding recommendations of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) during the on-site review process at GTMO. The recommendations are based on the prediction that the operations at GTMO regarding the ...
This document is a "Welcome aboard packet" for Rotation 6 of FBI agents in Iraq. Contains a mission statement, general instructions and recommendations for life at the Baghdad Operations Center (BOC). The document names On Scene Commander, E. ...
This document contains several pages re. taking a "lessons learned" approach to agency work. Suggests that, prior to deployment overseas, the FBI should brief agents "regarding the Bureau's policy on presence during/assistance to (etc.) coercive ...
This document is a memo which mentions the Financial Privacy Act and the Buckley Amendment, healthcare fraud. It also mentions an upcoming meeting "to discuss whether WFO SAs may live in undercover properties."
This document is an email in which two FBI officials discuss advice given on reading Miranda warnings to detainees overseas. Most of the document is redacted.
This document is an email criticizing Judge Robertson's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. The email states that "This is an opportunity for the Administration to fix the process and still save the process." It includes three pages of the opinion ...
This document is mostly redacted. The most substantive portion states that [Redacted] (OGC) (FBI) sent an unredacted copy of an email from 1/21/04 5:15 p.m. entitled "Subject: FWD: re: Impersonating FBI."
This email outlines the procedure for processing accusations of abuse by detainees, confirming that the FBI turns over reports of detainee abuse to DoD, who are responsible for investigating.
This document is an email to FBI personnel informing them that DOJ OIG has begun an inquiry into abuses of detainees at GTMO, Abu Ghraib, and other U.S. military prisons. The message notes that Patrick Kelley is the point of contact for DOJ OIG. ...
This document is a series of emails concerning interviews conducted by Brig. Gen. Furlow and Paul Zimmerman of USDOJ OIG regarding FBI agents and members of the military who may have witnessed detainee abuse.
Audio of an interview of Moazzem Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, conducted by the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General, as part of its report on the FBI's involvement in the mistreatment of detainees. You can listen to the audio below ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/23/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/24/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/25/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/28/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/26/04-6/28/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/29/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This document is an FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment from Afghanistan (6/29/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 5/4/06. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in an air conditioned room with his hands free and his feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. The synopsis states that the purpose of the ...
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 3/14/03 and states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta. The document is heavily redacted.
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 7/18/02. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta and is mostly redacted.
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 5/18/02. It states that the detainee was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but seems to imply that the detainee declined to be interviewed.
This document is mostly redacted. The synopsis states that it responds to the lead sent by Legat Riyadh to show photos of individuals involved in the RIYADHBOMB investigation to GTMO detainees.