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 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2872
Email updating J. Stephen Tidwell and the redacted recipient on General Counsel Valerie Caproni's progress in providing information from Guantanamo interviews to the FBI Director Mueller.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Janice K. Fedarcyk
J. Stephen Tidwell
Janice K. Fedarcyk, J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller
May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2959
Request FBI Lab conduct DNA examination on samples from 8 detainees and one deceased individual killed by U.S. military in Afghanistan.
May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2983
This FBI memo concerns the activities of FBI personnel at Abu Ghraib prison from October 2003 to December 2003. The FBI conducted 15 interviews of military personnel, each being present at Abu Ghraib prison at some point during October 2003 & ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3060
Email from Valerie Caproni stating that the FBI is the lead on interrogating a detainee who's name is redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3138
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 25, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4566

A letter from Jack Goldsmith to John Helgerson requesting time to review the descriotion of the OLC's advice in the Special Review before it is sent to Congress.  [OLC Vaughn Index #26]

Aug. 24, 2009
Letter
Jack L. Goldsmith
John L. Helgerson
Jack L. Goldsmith, John L. Helgerson, Scott W. Muller
May 25, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4858
These emails are between US government officials who traveled to Baghdad together and were preparing a report on their observations and the allegations of detainee abuse. One of the authors states that there were three (3) "probably true/valid" ...
Apr. 24, 2006
Email
Physical assault
May 25, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5088
CIA memo about a "Detainee Working Group" organized to coordinate the CIA's response to external inquiry concerning its "actual and alleged detention, debriefing, interrogation, and rendition practices." The memo lays out the working group's ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
George J. Tenet
May 25, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6587
This May 25, 2004 letter from Jack Goldsmith asks John Helgerson for time to review the description in the CIA's memo of the OLC's advice concerning interrogations in the war on terrorism, before it is sent to Congress.
Aug. 31, 2016
Letter
Jack L. Goldsmith
John L. Helgerson
Scott W. Muller, John L. Helgerson, Jack L. Goldsmith
May 26, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 374
Editorials, Articles, Opinion Editorials and Letter to the Editor re: Abu Ghraib and the War in Iraq. Some of the OP-EDs are from former or current government officials. Many of the articles and opinions are from ordinary citizens expressing ...
Jan. 31, 2005
Other
John C. Yoo
General, Other Humiliation, Physical assault