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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A negative response to an FBI inquiry into aggressive treatment of detainees and/or harsh techniques/interrogations by FBI agents at Guantanamo Bay.
This CID investigation was initiated upon receiving a complaint by a civilian interrogator that he “heard a rumor” that a guard at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) holding facility urinated in a water bottle and gave it to a detainee to ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Other
This document is a memo to file for the Criminal Investigation Division to establish interim policy concerning the Forwarding of Original Case Files Pertaining to Detainee Abuse/Death Investigations. The memo direct that “Upon closure of any CID ...
Court Martial of LCPL Ryan S. Roberts. LCPL Roberts was charged with dereliction of duty; maltreatment of a prisoner; and holding a pistol to the head of a detainee while being photographed. He pleaded guilty to all charges and received a ...
June 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Ryan S. Roberts
Use of water, Physical assault
Email from David Bowker to William H. Taft IV, James H. Thessin, Edwards R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin and Todd F. Buchwald re: Draft list of priorities on International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Report. No attachment.

(A CIA affidavit states that this was a 1-page memo dated Aug. 4, 2004 from CIA to OLC and that it contained "communications from the CIA to OLC on a matter in which the CIA requested legal advice from OLC.")  The document ...

July 24, 2008
Legal Memo
Richard J. Durbin
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
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 conducted interviews of detainees, ...
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 observing no aggressive ...
CID report and accompanying documents related to an investigation of abuse. The investigation followed a report by a U.S. Army Medic at Bagram Detention Facility that Persons Under Control (PUC) numbers 327, 328 and 330 may have been previously ...
Oct. 15, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault
CID Report of investigation into alleged abuse and sodomy of detainee. Victim was captured on May 4, 2004 “by two males wearing green t-shirts, cargo pants and tan vests, who stated they worked for the Criminal Investigations."He was handcuffed, ...