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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May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6378
This document lists "Issues to be discussed," including not compromising FBI ethics in a mission. It also continues a mission analysis featuring questions about interrogation and interviews, detention facility participation, command and control, ...
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6377
This document is a list of pages that have been deleted from the released documents, including the code indicating the reasons for deletion. A total of 17 pages were deleted.
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6376
This email briefly discusses a letter drafted by CIRG to ORG to send to the Department of Defense regarding detainee treatment observed by members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit at GTMO. The response states that the redacted respondent has no ...
Oct. 09, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6375
This document is an Iraq Task Force daily situation report. It contains information about interviews of detainees and provides short summaries of the information they gave. It contains statistics on detainee status and personnel status.
Jan. 25, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6374
This document is an email from Valerie E. Caproni to redacted recipient suggesting more information on abuses that occurred in Afghanistan be added to a QFR response to Senator Leahy's inquiry.
July 20, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Dec. 22, 2004 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6373
This document is an email alerting recipients that, after discussions with FBI Director Mueller, FBI is sending DoD 8 interviews with agents who reported seeing actions that might constitute detainee mistreatment.
July 20, 2009
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington
Oct. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6372
This document is a memorandum alerting Toni Fogle of the FBI's Internal Affairs Division of an investigation into the death of a detainee, Haji Sher Mohammad, and requesting to interview a special agent who administered a gunshot residue test to ...
Non-legal Memo
Toni Fogle
Haji Sher Mohammad
June 29, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6371
This document is an Initial Army CID report concerning allegations by a detainee that he was tortured for approximately 24 hours by agents of the FBI while held at the Baghdad International Airport detention facility. Records revealed that the ...
July 21, 2009
Oversight Report
Stomach/abdominal slap, Other, Physical assault
June 06, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6370
This document is a page listing 104 pages withheld from release and the reasons for their withholding.
May 04, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6369
This document is an email to the FBI asking for help with a project at GTMO. The project is the build town homes with "culturally correct" decor to reward detainees who are highly cooperative. The email also states that Intel Officer Lt. Col. ...