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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Aug. 31, 2006 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6796
A letter providing legal advice regarding whether the conditions of detention at certain overseas CIA facilities are consistent with the applicable standards of the DTA. It concludes that the conditions of confinement did not constitute "cruel, ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
Steven G. Bradbury
John A. Rizzo
John A. Rizzo, Steven G. Bradbury
EIT, Cramped confinement, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Forced grooming, Other Humiliation
Nov. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6783
This November 2006 cable lists the personnel involved with the detainee program who have acknowledged reading and understanding the "Guidelines on Confinement Conditions for CIA Detainees". The list includes James Mitchell.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
James Mitchell
Apr. 12, 2006 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6762
This document is Dr. James Mitchell's contractor performance report from April 12, 2006. He received a performance rating of "Exceptional" in each category of performance.
Dec. 20, 2016
Other
James Mitchell
James Mitchell
Nov. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6643
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the eighth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to decrease funding from $43,826,609 to ...
Sept. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6642
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the seventh modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to $43,826,609 ...
June 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6641
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the sixth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value for to ...
Mar. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6640
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the third modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
Mar. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6638
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the fourth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
June 01, 2006 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 6631
This document is a fax from John Rizzo to Steven Bradbury containing Mr. Rizzo's draft Q&A responses for an upcoming hearing on detention and interrogation.
Aug. 31, 2016
Cable
John A. Rizzo
Steven G. Bradbury
Steven G. Bradbury, John A. Rizzo, John C. Yoo, Jay S. Bybee, William J. Haynes, II, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alberto R. Gonzales, Scott W. Muller, Daniel B. Levin, John Ashcroft
EIT
Aug. 31, 2006 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6563
This letter from Steven Bradbury to John Rizzo memorializes the advice that Bradbury gave to Rizzo regarding whether the conditions of confinement used by the CIA in its covert overseas facilities are consistent with common Article 3 of the 1949 ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Letter
Steven G. Bradbury
John A. Rizzo
Steven G. Bradbury, John A. Rizzo
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other