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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July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5439
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, who witnessed and participated in a ...
July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5416
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, who was not part of debriefing or ...
July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6119
This email, including a forwarded chain of emails, says that the CTD, or perhaps OGC, should advise personnel pre-deployment of their responsibility to report actions that may be a violation of law and/or prescribed procedure. File name: ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
July 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6116
This email provides a consideration that FBI officials reiterate FBI personnel's responsibility to report observations of misconduct prior to their deployment in order to avoid failure to report, and, thus possible misconduct and/or criminal ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Gary M. Bald, Donald W. Thompson, Jr, Toni M. Fogle
July 28, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6782
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 ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Email, Other
James Mitchell , Bruce Jessen
July 27, 2004 | DOA | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1406
Memo informs the reader that the Office of the Inspector General learned of a video portraying images of soldiers engaged in offensive behavior. The video allegedly portrays soldiers with the 1st Battalion 124 Infantry mistreating enemy ...
July 15, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Other
July 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2823

This memo provides the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board.  Its contents are mostly redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Patrick Rowan
Patrick Rowan
July 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3881
Fax cover page from Jonathan Crock to JoAnn Dolan, no subject or attachments.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan M. Crock
July 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4072
Refers to "PCC Briefing Memo" [Document not included]. No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan
Jonathan M. Crock, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris
July 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5460
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent reported that s/he did not observe ...