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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Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that he was transferred to Camp Delta from Kandahar, Afghanistan and claimed that while in Kandahar he was threatened by the U.S. investigator with an AK 47 assault rifle. ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Threat, Assault/death
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee volunteered that he joined Jihad after the attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001, but in a peaceful capacity. Stated that if there were inconsistencies in his interview ...
Army Training and Evaluation program No. 63-622-MTP: Mission Training Plan for Headquarters Area Support Group
Army Cover Letter: Mission Training Plan for Headquarters Area Support Group
Dec. 31, 2004
Letter
Eric K. Shinseki
Eric K. Shinseki, Joel B. Hudson
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee that he had been answering questions for six months and his case has not improved. He stated "God tells Muslims to do a jihad against non - Muslims and countries that are not ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation, Religious

This is a heavily redacted version of an OLC memo later released in less-redacted form (at ACLU-RDI 4548).  This unredacted portions of this version of the memo from the OLC to the CIA discuss the anti-torture statute 18 U.S.C. 2340, ...

July 24, 2008
Legal Memo
Jay S. Bybee
John A. Rizzo
Jay S. Bybee

An OLC memo concluding that the CIA’s proposed interrogation plan for Abu Zubaydah — which contemplates methods including “insects placed in a confinement box” and “the waterboard” — does not violate ...

This August 1, 2002 memo from Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales discusses standards of conduct for interrogations under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment as implemented by 18 U.S. C. §§ ...
Legal Memo
Jay S. Bybee
Alberto Gonzalez
Jay Bybee, Alberto Gonzalez
This August 1, 2002 OLC memo from Jay Bybee to John Rizzo discusses whether certain proposed conduct in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah would violate the prohibition against torture found at Section 2340A of title 18 of the U.S. Code. The memo ...
This August 1, 2002 memo from John C. Yoo to Alberto Gonzales discusses standards of conduct for interrogations under the Torture Convention and under the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court.
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
John C. Yoo
Alberto Gonzalez
John C. Yoo, Alberto Gonzalez, Jay Bybee