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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Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4748
Memorandum from the FBI Counterterrorism division sent internally. The memo addresses FBI interviews conducted at Guantanamo by FBI Agents from San Diego and San Francisco. FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet is appended to the document.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Arthur M. Cummings, II
Nov. 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4829

The interview of an official regarding injuries a civilian detainee sustained. The official responded to approximately six questions regarding the source of the detainee's injuries. The official stated that sometime in November 2003 the ...

Nov. 25, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 4831
This document is part of a larger document. The contents of this document are: “Recommendations: (Appointment Letter Dated 25 November 2003) as of 4 DEC 03 - No further investigation. Detainee received injury when his head hit a board on the ...
Nov. 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4832
This memo discusses an official's appointment to Investigating Officer for the purpose of conducting a formal investigation, pursuant to Army Regulation 15-6, into the circumstances surrounding the release of a civilian detainee from the Warhorse ...
Nov. 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4851
This memo discusses an official's appointment to Investigating Officer for the purpose of conducting a formal investigation.
Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6292
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding document information related to impersonation by Department of Defense interrogators at Guantanamo representing themselves to be official of the FBI and the U.S. State Department.
Oct. 30, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Nov. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6293
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the detention and interrogation of detainee Mohameou Ould Slahi. The document is heavily redacted.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Arthur M. Cummings, II
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
| ACLU-RDI
Nov. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3965
Email from Waldo W. Brooks to JoAnn Dolan re: U.S. and Australia Announce Agreements on Guantanamo Detainees
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
JoAnn J. Dolan
Waldo W. Brooks , JoAnn J. Dolan
David Hicks
Nov. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3966
Email from Clifton Johnson forwarding an article in the Independent (UK) with the headline "Guantanamo treatment is 'monstrous', says law lord", Dated November 26, 2003. The forwarding comments are: "Folks, The story below was in today's ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Clifton M. Johnson
Pierre-Richard Prosper | JoAnn J. Dolan | Jonathan M. Crock | Todd F. Buchwald | David A. Kaye
Clifton M. Johnson, Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan M. Crock, Todd F. Buchwald