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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This is an FBI Case Notes report. The agent who compiled the notes titled it: Afghanistan Torture Case, with the following entry legible " In a case referred to DOJ by Army CID [redacted] contract interpreter who may or may not be a U.S. Citizen, ...
Feb. 06, 2006
Notes
Alex J. Turner, Robert A. Spencer
Emails are redacted, but some discuss the establishment of a joint investigative strategy.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham
Memo discusses a need to travel to an unknown part of Iraq in order to interview unknown individual(s). Contents redacted.
Email discusses detainee abuse investigation and an earlier phone conversation, where information concerning an unidentified detainee detention facility was discussed. Contents mostly redacted.
Emails discuss the submission of documents detailing specific information concerning [redacted]. One email reads " this is what started the whole thing." The emails include a sworn statement. Contents redacted.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email, Interview
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle
FBI list of documents received from SA [redacted]. Contents redacted.
Memo synopsis indicates that the memo discusses the CIRG/BAU's assessment of the interview process in GTMO. Also, it reads that the has a "Copy of a Letterhead Memorandum (LHM), suitable for dissemination to outside agencies" enclosed.

Memo is an FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) report of DOD interrogation tactics used in Guantanamo. BAU reported witnessing the following techniques being used: duct tape to a detainee's mouth, growling dogs, bright lights, loud music, and ...

Feb. 06, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other
Email updates recipient of the current environment in Guantanamo, during the author's assignment there, he/she has observed approximately twelve interrogations. He/she observed or learned of the following techniques being used by the Defense ...
The document's synopsis reads: "To document information concerning the impersonation by DOD interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who represented themselves as officials of the FBI in conjunction with interrogation techniques not endorsed by the ...