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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Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6160
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, John Ashcroft, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Raymond Mey, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Robert S. Mueller, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Paul Wolfowitz, Willie T. Hulon, Michael J. Heimbach
Feb. 23, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6175
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Ayres, regarding his knowledge of FBI intelligence-gathering strategies and interrogation techniques, discussions of different intelligence-gathering approaches, and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David Ayres, John Ashcroft, David E. Nahmias
Jose Padilla, Mohamedou Ould Slahi , Moazzam Begg
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6171
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of Department of Defense interrogation techniques used on Detainee #63 at Guantanamo Bay as well as the FBI's involvement.
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John Ashcroft, Robert S. Mueller, David E. Nahmias
Mohammed al Qahtani, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6152
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Bruce Swartz, regarding his knowledge about FBI concerns related to the mistreatment of detainees as well as his knowledge related to incidents of alleged detainee ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Bruce Swartz, Alice Fisher, Michael Chertoff, Christopher A. Wray, John Richter, Laura H. Parsky, John B. Bellinger, III, John Ashcroft, Larry Thompson, David E. Nahmias, Thomas J. Harrington, Pasquale D'Amuro, Geoffrey D. Miller
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6149
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about legal issues raised about the interrogation techniques employed in a redacted detainee's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. The ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Robert S. Mueller, Alice Fisher, Michael Chertoff, Christopher A. Wray, Larry Thompson, John Ashcroft, David Ayres, Patrick Philbin, Whit Cobb, Condoleeza Rice, Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6146
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about issues related to the treatment or interrogation of military detainees. He states that he regularly raised concerns about the ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Whit Cobb, Marshall Billingslea, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Stuart Levey, John B. Bellinger, III, Christopher A. Wray, Michael Chertoff, Larry Thompson, James B. Comey, John Ashcroft, Arthur M. Cummings, II, John S. Pistole, Robert S. Mueller, David N. Kelley
Moazzam Begg