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 6539
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/khalid-sheikh-muhammad-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
EIT
| ACLU-RDI 6538
View version of this transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/abd-al-rahim-al-nashiri-csrt-transcript
CSRT
EIT
| ACLU-RDI 6537
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/mustafa-al-hawsawi-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi
EIT
| ACLU-RDI 6536
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/ammar-al-baluchi-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Abd al Aziz Ali
EIT
| ACLU-RDI 6535
View version of transcript with portions released on 6/13/16 highlighted here: https://www.aclu.org/other/abu-zubaydah-csrt-transcript
CSRT
Abu Zubaydah
EIT
Aug. 27, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6534
This heavily redacted memo contains notes from a meeting on specific interrogation techniques, including the waterboard, sleep deprivation, and water dousing, between DOJ attorneys, including Dan Levin and Steven Bradbury, and CIA personnel. ...
Non-legal Memo
Daniel B. Levin, Steven Bradbury
Waterboarding, Water dousing, Sleep deprivation, Use of water
Aug. 11, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6533
This memorandum is a heavily redacted message to Acting Assistant Attorney General Dan Levin, stating that the CIA is preparing preliminary biographies "in preparation for a future request for a legal opinion" on interrogations in CIA control.
June 10, 2016
Cable, Letter
Dan Levin
Daniel B. Levin
May 12, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6532
This Operational Review of the CIA Detainee Program finds that the program is a success and provides "unique and invaluable intelligence." The review also finds that the procedures for handling detainees are "adequate and clear"and that the ...
June 10, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Henry A. Crumpton
Deputy Director for Operations
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
Jan. 13, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6531
This heavily redacted memorandum contains comments from Medical Services on the Counterterrorism Detention and Investigation Program. The memorandum mentions OMS concerns about a conflict of interest in which the only individuals approved to ...
June 10, 2016
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
Jan. 22, 2003 | U.S.A. | ACLU-RDI 6530
N/A
June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo, Cable
EIT