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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June 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2899
These emails are personal messages between FBI agents, one stateside and one at Guantanamo. the one who is stateside received a call from a former AUSA from the Newark, NJ office who passes on warm regards to the agent at Guantanamo. The email ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2895
Deleted page information sheet that references "Detainees 2733-2736" and "Detainees 2753-2756."
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2896
The document contains two electronic communications that relate to Guantanamo (attachments not provided).
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Pasquale D'Amuro, Andrew Arena
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2893
Deleted Page Information Sheet
Oct. 24, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2894
This FBI memo describes the workgroup that brings together Behavioral Analysis Unit personnel in order to incorporate their skills and experience in to a practical guide for personnel involved in conducting interviews of Al-Qaeda and Taliban ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle
May 04, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2891
Email from individual who indicates he is "TDY at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba," which has "a key and close working relationship with DOD, specifically JTF-170. DOD has designated JTF-170 as the command responsible for developing intelligence from the ...
Oct. 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2892
Two emails from the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)'s Behavioral Assessment Unit (BAU) regarding a two-day BAU workshop November 5 and 6, 2003 re: interviewing extremists. First email indicates that the workshop is to take place at ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2889
Identities of sender and recipient redacted. Sender works for HQ and states that "EAD Pistole wants some talking points by noon today on the quality of DoD's interviews at GTMO. I am going to pull bullets from the attached EC. If you have any ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
| ACLU-RDI 2890
Indicates that certain pages were "not considered for release as they are duplicative of Detainees 1261-1267." Reference number for these documents is "Detainees 2724-2730."
Mar. 10, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2886
Printout of Newsday article (AP News) entitled "Guantanamo Returnees' Treatment Criticized." Gareth Peirce, who represented Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul, said that the Metropolitan Police mistreated the British men arrested upon their return to ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul, Jamal Malik al Harith, Rhuhel Ahmed, Tarek Dergoul
Sleep deprivation, Temperature, Environmental manipulation