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 attached fax cover sheet and letter is a response from Director Gerald Feierstein to Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant's January 31, 2002 letter concerning the Bush Administration's policy with respect to the detention of enemy combatants captured in ...
These slides contain part two of a two-part presentation given by Dr. Bruce Jessen to future interrogators at Guantanamo Bay on how to overcome Al-Qa'ida Resistance based on "recently obtained Al-Qa'ida Documents."
These slides contain part one of a two-part presentation given by Dr. Bruce Jessen to future interrogators at Guantanamo Bay on how to overcome Al-Qa'ida Resistance based on "recently obtained Al-Qa'ida Documents."
These slides contain the second section of a two-part presentation given by Dr. Bruce Jessen to train American interrogators headed to Guantanamo Bay on how to extract information from detainees. This section also includes specific strategies ...
These slides contain the first section of a two-part presentation given by Dr. Bruce Jessen to train American interrogators headed to Guantanamo Bay on how to extract information from detainees.
This is an email which provides electronic copies "of the CTC/RDG Interrogator Course Critiques." This course was taught by Mitchell, Jessen, and one other redacted official, and the critiques come from "interrogator graduates" and an OMS ...
This CIA document contains USG's plan to obtain intelligence more quickly from unlawful combatants through interrogation. The plan discusses the current CTC interrogation team for Abu Zubaydah and the plan to train more CIA officers to deploy ...
This document is Dr. James Mitchell's contractor performance report from April 12, 2006. He received a performance rating of "Exceptional" in each category of performance.
This Statement of Need requests that the CIA's Counterterrorism Center (CTC) renew James Mitchell, Bruce Jessen and two additional SERE psychologists' Independent Contractor contracts so that they can continue to support the CTC's interrogation ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the twenty-second modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the Government. The purpose of this modification is to incorporate the settlement cost ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the twenty-first modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the Government. The purpose of this modification is to increase the contract value from ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the twentieth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to decrease the contract value from ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the nineteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase funding from $75,700,073 ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the eighteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase funding from $73,700,073 ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the seventeenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase funding from $73,100,073 ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the sixteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase the contract value to to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fifteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The main purpose of this modification is to increase funding from ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fourteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $65,403,684 to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the thirteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $53,403,684 to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the twelfth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $52,403,684 to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the eleventh modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $45,903,684 to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the tenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase the contract value and target ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the ninth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to "fully fund" the contract, thereby ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the eighth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to decrease funding from $43,826,609 to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the seventh modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to $43,826,609 ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the sixth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value for to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the third modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fifth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to add clause 152.245-714, "Government ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the fourth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the second modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract was filed to de-obligate excess FY 2009 funding from Mitchell, Jessen & Associates Account Line. The contract value remains at $76,007,361.
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the first modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The modification increases contract value and obligation from $1,183,783 ...
This Statement of Work dated June 15, 2005 includes Mitchell, Jessen & Associates' (MJA) Technical Proposal dated April 27, 2005, which lays out the objectives and scope of the Project with the Counterterrorist Center (CTC) (the name of the ...
This letter provides Bruce Jessen, of Mitchell, Jessen and Associates LLC confirmation of Verbal Authorization to Proceed Not to Exceed for DCI's Counterterrorist Center (CTC) Elicitation and Training for a CTC Project (name of Project redacted ...
Indemnification Agreement between Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, LLC ("MJA") and the U.S. Government, James Mitchell and the U.S. Government, and Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government. This agreement supersedes the November 8, 2007 ...
Indemnification Agreement between Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, LLC ("MJA") and the U.S. Government, James Mitchell and the U.S. Government, and Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government. This agreement supersedes the November 8, 2007 ...
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 ...