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.
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that prior to being turned over to the U.S. military, he was shot in the right shoulder by the "NA," tortured in various houses (four houses) and ordered to ...
A Detainee requested to be interviewed because he stated he was "Very Stressed" and he was being tormented by another detainee. He gave an expansive interview detailing that several of his fellow detainee had openly expressed a desire to harm the ...
This memo also includes a table and emails. The general synopsis of the memo is it provides the statement of an SA's observations while at Abu Graib Prison. In the memo, SA states that during his time at the "Abu Graib Prison his role was to only ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated he was not mistreated and did not witness mistreatment. However, stated that, on occasion, he was pushed to the ground while hands were handcuffed behind his back and ...
Synopsis of memo: requested observations/recommendations of The National Center for the Analysis of Violent 'Crime (NCAVC) concerning the day-to-day operation of the GTMO Project.
FBI memo providing the Washington Field Office with an update on an investigation of the 800th Military Police abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
E-mail between T.J. Harrington, Valerie Caproni and other un-named FBI officials concerning photographs on a CD from various FBI personnel during their TDY rotation to the Baghdad Operation Center. An FBI agent who reviewed the CD did not believe ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated he was at the Kandahar airport for 2-3 months before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Stated he was treated harshly by the U.S. in Peshawar and Kandahar. Said he was ...
Detainee gave expansive interview on the conditions at Camp Delta; his views on different Al Queda leaders and US/Mid-East relations. He had no specific complaints about his conditions. When asked what he liked about America, he provided ...
Emails concerning the FBI Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU) assessment of the interrogation techniques used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The email seeks to discuss the interrogation techniques "in detail." Reference is made to Stephen A. ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that he was transferred to Camp Delta from Kandahar, Afghanistan and claimed that while in Kandahar he was threatened by the U.S. investigator with an AK 47 assault rifle. ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes) Threat, Assault/death
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee that he had been answering questions for six months and his case has not improved. He stated "God tells Muslims to do a jihad against non - Muslims and countries that are not ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that since being turned over to American custody he has not been mistreated. However, he did complain that in Bagram, Afghanistan his handcuffs were too tight around his ...
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 ...
Fax cover sheet from Human Rights Watch/Asia to the CIA re: "We would very tioch appreciate if this Letter could be delivered to Director Tenet. A hard copy will also be mailed. Thank you very much." No attachments.
Email coordinating replacement investigators in Guantanamo. Text reads:"Det. [redacted] is scheduled to leave Guantanamo on 1/29/2003. SA [redacted] will be leaving on approximately 2/13/2003. For planning purposes, it is recommended that ...
The interviewed detainee stated he had just been released from the fleet hospital approximately 30 minutes before the interview
started. The detainee was specifically asked the questions regarding force protection. Asked if he knew or had ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes) George W. Bush
Entire contents redacted. Only visible language is a header that reads " Classification Draft," also at the top it reads "David Nahmias- AG Letter.wpd"
FBI memo for SAC Stephen R. Wiley concerning issues at Guantanamo. The memo gives details about the FBI's BAU witnessing detainee abuse by DOD representatives that included: Sleep depravation; use of loud music/bright lights; and "growling" dogs. ...
The detainee was interviewed at Camp Delta, and stated that three to four weeks ago, at Camp X-ray, an unknown number of guards "entered his cell, unprovoked, and started spitting and cursing at him. The guards called him a 'son of a bitch' and ...
A summary of a FBI interview of a detainee being held at Camp X-Ray about the conditions of confinement in the camp. During the interview, the detainee stated that Military Police "have been mistreating the detainees by pushing them ...
Emails between Valerie Caproni to T.J. Harrington and Otrhers re: Instructions for FBI Interrogators at Guantanamo. The emails goes in to detail on how FBI agents serving at Guantanamo should conduct themselves and not deviate from Bureau ...
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
Indicates an incident wherein a detainee at Guantanamo was the subject of a "Forced Cell Extraction". The email states "the incident described by the detainee matches up with an instance wherein the detainee was the subject of a Forced Cell ...
Emails between Gary Bald, Valerie Caproni, Edward Lueckenhoff and Others concerning a report that a detainee walked in to Temporary Holding Facility in Iraq, called 6-26 (TH 6-26), with burn marks upon him. The detainee stated he had been ...
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 official observed a ...
This email is collecting a list of FBI agents who toured through Iraq in 2003, and obtaining statments from them concerning their understanding of FBI interrogation procedures for detainees.
Summary of a FBI interview of a detainee being held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay about his affiliation with the Taliban/Al Qaeda. Mentioned that he was transferred to Camp X-ray from Kandahar. The detainee stated he had no ties to Taliban, that ...
Memo is concerning a potential cases of: 1) detainee abuse involving the rape of an un-named detainee; and 2) Bribes being paid to an un-named person in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Email states that the author has experienced "unfavorable contact" with AUSA Robert Spencer of the Eastern District of Virginai regarding "WFO's failure to more aggressively address pending allegations". Specifically, AUSA Spencer berated an ...
Handwritten FBI notes regarding military personnel behavior at Abu Ghraib prison. Includes accounts of humiliation. [Documents are handwritten, slightly illegible].