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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Sept. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4922
FBI Notes re: Handwritten Notes of FBI Agent Touring Through Guantanamo Bay.
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap
Sept. 07, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 49
Investigation into validity of statements by a soldier claiming to have been involved in the abuse and murder of Iraqi detainees on January 18, 2004, while he worked in the Intensive Care Ward, Camp Anaconda, Balad, Iraq. An Investigation ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson
Sept. 07, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 183
This cable describes the efforts by Jordanian and Iraqi intelligence to find five (5) terrorists who were involved in the killing of a US Diplomat in Amman Jordan and the attempted assassination of a GID Colonel. This cable focuses on the ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Cable
Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, General, Physical assault
Sept. 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2259
The executive summary discusses the Fay/Jones Report, which identified 29 soldiers implicated in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib; eleven of those identified were reserve soldiers. The memo refers to a matrix that includes the relevant ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Oversight Report
George R. Fay, Anthony R. Jones
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3263
This FBI memo concerns an administrative inquiry by a Special Agent (SA). There was an interview, during which the SA provided copies of approximately 14 documents.
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3526
FBI list of documents received from SA [redacted]. Contents redacted.
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4905
FBI Memo from FBI Investigative Analyst who toured through Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The Agent states that he did not have any substantive contact with Military Police or other U.S. government personnel at Guantanamo regarding detainee's ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4906
Receipt for Original Notes. No content.
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4907
Handwritten notes by an FBI agent who toured through Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The Agent recalls hearing about a rumor, wherein a male detainee was purportedly dressed in female clothing, make-up applied and involuntarily given a lap dance by a ...
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4908
FBI Memo re: Questionaire to FBI Agents Concerning Activities at Guantanamo