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 is a CID Report in to the death of Husayn Kazim Husayn, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on September 20, 2008. Mr. Husayn was witnessed having a seizure and falling in Holding ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes) Husayn Kazim Husayn
This chart lists the "black list" numbers for what appears to be detainees held in U.S. detention facilities. The chart notes two detention facilities in which these detainees are being held : Special Prisoner Confinement Facility (SPCF) and the ...
This heavily redacted cable discusses a meeting at Embassy Suva to discuss a relocation/asylum proposal. The memo also discusses a meeting between Ambassador McGann and New Zealand High Commissioner to Kiribati Robert Kawai to discuss assistance ...
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing a request for a copy of the Death Certificate of a detainee, ISN#: 329938, who died at Camp Bucca, Iraq on July 23, 2009. The request was approved.
Emails record the correspondences of the investigating agent with multiple army personnel regarding the details of what units and actual soldiers were holding the detainee. The agent conducts an exhaustive search but is unable to match the ...
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Husayn Kazim Qurunair Al-Araki, a detainee Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq, on May 22, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Al-Araki was a man who suffered from schizophrenia ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes) Husayn Kazim Qurunair Al-Araki Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Tor Jan, an Afghani detainee being held at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Bagram, Afghanistan on June 26, 2008. This Report states that Mr. Jan was detained by the Afghan National Police, struggled while ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes) Tor Jan Physical assault
This is a CID investigation in to the death of Thabet Kalif Jabout, a detainee the 115th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that on August 19, 2008 Mr. Jabout was admitted to the ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Summaries/Notes) Thabet Kalif Jabout
An OLC memo stating that "the purpose of this memorandum is to confirm that certain propositions stated in several opinions issued by the Office of Legal Counsel in 2001-2003 respecting the allocation of authorities between the President ...
This January 15, 2009 OLC memo from Steven Bradbury discusses the reasons for the withdrawal of nine OLC memos that were issued in the aftermath of 9/11, specifically why the propositions in these memos are not consistent with the current views ...
This is a CID investigation into the death of Abdul Wali, a detainee at the Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan on December 19, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Wali was in his cell when he experienced a medical emergency. The soldier who responded ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes) Abdul Wali
This is a CID investigation into the death of Nawab Buntangyar, a combatant in Afghanistan. Mr. Buntangyar was engaging US & Afghani Security Forces (ASF) near Fire Base (FB) Chamkani, Afghanistan on October 13, 2006. Mr. Buntangyar was given ...
This is a CID Report in to the death of Muhammad Najib Abu-Wafa Ali, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF) Hospital, Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq on September 1, 2008. It is reported that Mr. Ali was witnessed falling when exiting his ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes) Muhammad Najib Abu-Wafa Ali
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Muhammad Fahdil Khamat Marush, Air Force Theater Hospital Joint Base (AFTHJB), Balad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Marush had a previous penetrating head injury prior to being taken in to ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Ayres, regarding his knowledge of FBI intelligence-gathering strategies and interrogation techniques, discussions of different intelligence-gathering approaches, and ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Gary Bald, regarding his knowledge of detainee interrogations and abuses as well as his role in developing guidelines for FBI conduct in detainee interrogations. He states ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with FBI's representative to CENTCOM (Army's Central Command). It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with detainee Moazzem Begg, regarding his general knowledge of incarceration in Egypt, his allegations of being threatened by two FBI agents, and his experiences being detained and ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Larry Thompson, regarding his knowledge of concerns about overseas detainee treatment, his advocacy for civilian control of Iraqi prisons, and discussions about the status ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of EC's from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, the military's interrogation techniques and strategies, and his experiences serving in ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of FBI operations and involvement at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, detainee-related issues that were brought by the FBI to the ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Bruce Swartz, regarding the provision of numerous documents that he has found for the Office of the Inspector General, including newspaper articles, Israeli Supreme Court ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Bruce Swartz, regarding his knowledge about FBI concerns related to the mistreatment of detainees as well as his knowledge related to incidents of alleged detainee ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about legal issues raised about the interrogation techniques employed in a redacted detainee's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. The ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about issues related to the treatment or interrogation of military detainees. He states that he regularly raised concerns about the ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his role as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division as well as disputes between the FBI and the Department of Defense ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Michael Chertoff, regarding his knowledge about FBI involvement in the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques for detainees as well as the role and interest ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Pat D'Amuro, regarding his knowledge about the document exploitation group deployed to Afghanistan as well as the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques and ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee describes various detainee abuses and interrogation ...
This document is a "CaseMap Facts Report" providing information on an interview with Chris Swecker. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all of his statements. He describes various detainee abuses and interrogation practices.
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee describes various detainee abuses and interrogation ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Pat D'Amuro. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior from ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Arthur Cummings. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Cummings discusses FBI practices at length, and mentions some forms of ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Valerie Caproni. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Caproni edits a previous statement she made.
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Valerie Caproni. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Caproni comments on the origins of the OIG investigation, discusses ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he observed a variety of torture, ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of Department of Defense interrogation techniques used on Detainee #63 at Guantanamo Bay as well as the FBI's involvement.
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience, the FBI's intelligence gathering capacity and criminal option viability, and his participation in the review of Office of Legal ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Andy Arena, regarding his responsibilities as Section Chief of International Terrorism Operations as well as three areas and issues related to detainees.
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Laura Parsky, regarding her work related to the issues at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay as well as concerns that she raised to the detainee Policy Coordinating ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Alice Fisher, regarding her knowledge about military detainee matters and her involvement in discussions about the release of enemy combatants from Guantanamo Bay. The ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Alice Fisher, regarding her knowledge about the CIA's interrogation techniques gained from either letters, case referrals, or advice memos.
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Charles Frahm. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior from ...