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. 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6619
Indemnification Agreement between Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, LLC ("MJA") and the U.S. Government, James Mitchell and the U.S. Government, and Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government. This agreement supersedes the November 8, 2007 ...
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
Dec. 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6619
Indemnification Agreement between Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, LLC ("MJA") and the U.S. Government, James Mitchell and the U.S. Government, and Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government. This agreement supersedes the November 8, 2007 ...
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
June 16, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6392
This document is a list of pages that have been deleted from the released documents, including the code indicating the reasons for deletion. A total of 43 pages were deleted.
May 17, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6388
This document is a list featuring descriptions of various abuses that occurred throughout Afghanistan. Most of the abuses involved slapping and punching.
June 15, 2011
Chart/List
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Facial hold
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6386
This document is a page listing pages withheld from current release, as well as reasons for the withholdings.
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6377
This document is a list of pages that have been deleted from the released documents, including the code indicating the reasons for deletion. A total of 17 pages were deleted.
June 06, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6370
This document is a page listing 104 pages withheld from release and the reasons for their withholding.
June 15, 2011 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6362
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
Dec. 30, 2011 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6129
The document is a letter from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General to the ACLU's National Security Project, regarding the ACLU's April 22nd, 2008 FOIA request. The letter is a cover letter for summaries of interviews conducted ...
Letter
William Blier
Jameel Jaffer
Andrew Arena, Gary M. Bald, Michael Chertoff, Pasquale D'Amuro, Alice Fisher, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Larry Thompson, David Ayres
Aug. 18, 2011 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6117
The document is a letter from the Records Management Division of the FBI to the National Security Project of the ACLU, regarding the final release of documents related to FOIA request 1129744 - specifically Office of Inspector General SITREPS.
Letter
Alexander Abdo
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