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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| ACLU-RDI 5183
Chart displaying the categories "Location", "Date", "Serial", "Interviewers", and "Interviewee", and showing 25 entries, all of which display "Abu Ghraib" in the "Location" category.
May 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5184
Memo indicating that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is closing investigation. The memo refers to a March 15, 2001 letter sent to Senator Warren Rudman by General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, and two electronic ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 5178
Email from Inspections Division seeking response from FBI employees who served at GTMO after 9/11/01. The email specifically requests a response from employees who "observed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on ...
| ACLU-RDI 5175
Chart displaying the categories "Location", "Date", "Serial", "Interviewers", and "Interviewee", and showing 25 entries, all of which display "Abu Ghraib" in the "Location" category.
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5275
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 or ...
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5194
This document is a response to an email sent on July 9, 2004 by Stephen McCraw to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. The document indicates that a special agent ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Los Angeles FBI Field Office; CI-2
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5229
This document is a response to an email sent to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. The document indicates that a special agent from Newark was at Guantanamo ...
July 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5237
This response to the Inspection Special Inquiry concerns the TDY of a Special Agent from Houston. It indicates that this agent has never been to GTMO but did two TDYs in Afghanistan. The first TDY was from Sept. 15, 2002 - Nov. 15, 2002, and the ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Houston FBI Field Office; Squad CT-1
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5285
This document is a response to an email sent on July 9, 2004 by Stephen McCraw to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. The document indicates that a special agent ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
San Antonio FBI Field Office
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5375
This document pertains to the Guantanamo Inspection Special Inquiry. This response indicates that a Special Agent from Boston was assigned to Guantanamo for 45 days in July-August, 2002. This agent states that apart from "fluctuations in room ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Boston FBI Field Office
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
Environmental manipulation, Temperature