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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Dec. 01, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4587

A fax (sent January 15, 2005) from the CIA to the OLC of the December 2004 OMS Guidelines on Medical and Psychological Support to Detainee Rendition, Interrogation, and Detention. The document is heavily redacted but describes the enhanced ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Psychological)
Daniel B. Levin
Daniel B. Levin
EIT, SERE, Use of water, Waterboarding, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Attention grasp, Facial hold, Walling, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Forced grooming
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5375
This document pertains to the Guantanamo Inspection Special Inquiry. This response indicates that a Special Agent from Boston was assigned to Guantanamo for 45 days in July-August, 2002. This agent states that apart from "fluctuations in room ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Boston FBI Field Office
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6139
This email includes a response to an FBI Inspection Division response request to all employees who observed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques during their time at Guantanamo Bay. This response states that an employee ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4886
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent states that he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Stress positions, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4887
These emails are a response to for a request for feedback from FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo and witnessed detainee abuse. An agent responded and wrote "I did observe treatment that was not only aggressive, but personally very ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity, Environmental manipulation
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4890
Handwritten notes on observations of detainee interrogations at Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The FBI agent notes that he saw a detainee "chained hand/foot" in a fetal position; detainees urinated & defecated upon themselves; and the temperature of the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation, Environmental manipulation
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4948
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay from February 10 to March 27- 2003. He does not have anything to report concerning any suspected or ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4952
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4960
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The agent related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4961
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
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