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 3205
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
May 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3206

In late 2002 and continuing into mid-2003, the Behavioral Analysis Unit raised concerns over interrogation tactics being employed by the U.S. military. As a result, this electronic communcation, dated 5/30/03, was generated summarizing the ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Physical assault, General
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3207
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3203
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3204

Entire contents redacted.

FBI | ACLU-RDI 3200
FBI Note re: Language Specialist FBI Boston, Tour of Duty Baghdad handwritten notes, contents completly redacted
May 31, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3201
Entire contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3202
FBI Memo re: The Role of the Behavioral Analysis Unit at Guantanamo Bay. The memo discusses a problem, offers background and provides possible solutions to the problem. In the memo, it states:"This document is intended to describe an ongoing ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3198
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3199
The email fowards a Washington Post article that describes the evolotion of the interrogation techniques used on detainees by the DOD. It quotes Sec. Rumsfeld spokesperson Lawrence Di Rita on the matter. It also relates a Senate Hearing where FBI ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Thomas J. Harrington
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Robert S. Mueller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Lawrence Di Rita, Geoffrey D. Miller, George W. Bush, William J. Haynes, II, Robert S. Mueller, Patrick Leahy, Charles E. Schumer, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Lane McCotter, John J. Armstrong
Use of water, Water dousing, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature