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 01, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6724
This redacted memo, sent from HQS/ALEC to the CIA, explains that the interrogation process with Abu Zubaydah is "at somewhat of a standstill" and presents options for proceeding in such a way that increases pressure on Zubaydah to provide ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Threat, Family/others, Cramped confinement
May 04, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6369
This document is an email to the FBI asking for help with a project at GTMO. The project is the build town homes with "culturally correct" decor to reward detainees who are highly cooperative. The email also states that Intel Officer Lt. Col. ...
May 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5184
Memo indicating that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is closing investigation. The memo refers to a March 15, 2001 letter sent to Senator Warren Rudman by General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, and two electronic ...
May 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4943
FBI interview of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who appears to have a great deal of experience with the Jihadist movement since 1989 and has come in to contact with many of the major figures and events in Islam and the Middle East that have defined ...
May 29, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1296
This Commander’s Inquiry in to an incident at the Guantanamo Bay hospital facility where a detainee became violent and attempted to assault military personnel by tossing a jar of urine upon them and using a metal chair by throwing it at the ...
May 01, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3359
The memo explains that in support of the PENTBOMB investigation, the Guantanamo task force and project was initiated. The memo further states that the US military is operating a Joint Intelligence Interrogation Facility (JIIF) in GTMO and ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Pasquale D'Amuro, Andrew Arena
May 21, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3384
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about his affiliation with the Taliban/Al Qaeda. The detainee stated that he "did not use anti-American rhetoric in his lectures." Also stated that in Bagram, he was ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Nudity
May 21, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3473
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee initially refused to answer questions unless he was released from his present cell. When asked about his previous statement about being a member of [redacted] he advised that he only made that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
May 02, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1052

a 55 year old male Iraqi detainee suffered an Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) 2nd to Coronary Arty Disease on March 8, 2004 while in US custody. His past medical history includes hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and possibly two previous ...

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Mohamad Abu Abbas
May 09, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4428
DOS Cable without any context