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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Sept. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5987
This document is a statement signed by an FBI Special Agent in the presence of a Supervisory Special Agent. The agent recounts their assignment by the Defense Humint Services Headquarters to lead a Humint Augmentation Team in support of a special ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Interview (Statement)
Use of water, Other, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
Apr. 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5986
This heavily redacted investigative file by the FBI transcribes an interview with an FBI Special Agent. The interview's nature seems to be to obtain additional facts surrounding allegations made against a fellow FBI Special Agent, who may or may ...
July 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5985
This considerably redacted investigative file by the FBI transcribes an interview with an FBI Special Agent. The interview's nature seems to be to obtain additional facts surrounding allegations made against a fellow FBI Agent, who may or may not ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Investigative File, Interview
Sleep deprivation, Other
July 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5984
This heavily redacted investigative file by the FBI transcribes an interview with an FBI Special Agent. The interview's nature seems to be to obtain additional facts surrounding allegations made against a fellow FBI Special Agent, who may or may ...
Aug. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5983
This heavily redacted investigative file by the FBI transcribes an interview with an FBI Special Agent. The interview was meant to obtain additional facts surrounding allegations made against a fellow FBI Special Agent, who is the subject of the ...
| ACLU-RDI 5982
A cover letter entitled: "Responses from: [redacted] Internal Investigations I Unit."
Nov. 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5981
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of the Inspector General enclosing requested materials on detainee issues. The classified materials include items from several internal investigation units, which are to be ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Nov. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5972
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice providing requested material on detainee issues. The classified materials include: 304 documents pertaining GTMO, 19 ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
| ACLU-RDI 5979
This document is a letter accompanying hard copies of EC related to GTMO activities. The author of the letter asks the recipient to upload or serialize the material due to a lack of resources on the author's end.
Sept. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5978
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email, Interview (Statement), Other
Investigative Technology Division TPS/RSDU
Counterterrorism Division