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. 29, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3302
Contents redacted, except for personal note on the passing of a former instructor at the Quantico training facility.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3303
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3304
Email from and to redacted re: Legal Issues re: Guantanamo. Contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3305
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Nov. 15, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3306
Emai to Marion Bowman re: Guantanamo. Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Frankie Battle, Stephen R. Wiley
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3307
FBI memo for SAC Stephen R. Wiley concerning issues at Guantanamo. The memo gives details about the FBI's BAU witnessing detainee abuse by DOD representatives that included: Sleep depravation; use of loud music/bright lights; and "growling" dogs. ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Stephen R. Wiley
Apr. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3308
An FBI agent who served at Guantanamo is responding to an EC sent to NCAVC, dated March 25, 2003. The agent states that the current email was on behalf of themself and another agent, and was also being sent "to every BAU SSA who spent their ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle
Mar. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3309
FBI Memo: Contents completly redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3310
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 18, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 3311

CIA press release States that May 2004 New Yorker story on a "DOD/CIA program to abuse and humiliate Iraqi prisoners" is "fundamentally wrong" and that spokesman has no awareness of CIA officials who could have confirmed ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Bill Harlow