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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FBI | ACLU-RDI 6319
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
| ACLU-RDI 6326
The document is a list of FBI affiliates, their locations, and their respective missions.
| ACLU-RDI 6344
The document is an email, regarding the interrogation plan for Detainee #63. The email includes information about FBI concerns about the plan and DHS methods.
June 15, 2011
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
| ACLU-RDI 6365
This document is a terrorist biographical/ psychological information questionnaire. It features questions on background, motivation, and perceptions of various terrorist groups, individuals, and actions.
| ACLU-RDI 6366
This is document is titled "Tiger Team Concept" and features a page asking "Why Change?" The reasons focus on the need for more teamwork, detainee cooperation, and control of information. It features a chart with a "Daily Interrogation Goal" ...
| ACLU-RDI 6367
This document, labeled "Overview," lists information about an unspecified approach.
| ACLU-RDI 6419
This is an internal Pentagon document showing the internal review processes for various tasks. It consists of pictograms that illustrate the order of these processes and includes time estimates.
| ACLU-RDI 6420
This is a page of handwritten notes with the title "FBI GWOT OPS." It lists broad categories of FBI Global War on Terrorism operations.
| ACLU-RDI 6423
This document is a series of emails discussing whether Department of Defense interrogators can force detainees to disrobe. A NYTimes article reported that this was the case, but the officials included in the email dispute this, mentioning that it ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Nudity
| ACLU-RDI 6428
This document documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 6/27/03. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but is largely redacted.