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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An email noting a positive response of aggressive treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The response, which is included in the email as a forward, states that a member of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime in the Critical ...
This is an email responding to an FBIHQ request. The author states that during their GTMO tenure, they witnessed aggressive treatment, interview/interrogation techniques of detainees by non-FBI Bureau personnel.
An email about FBI agents getting contacted by the military to partake in interviews as witnesses to allegations of prisoner abuse. One FBI Agent will be asked to recall any injuries or marks or complaints on a detainee he interviewed at ...
An Army questionnaire, including forty-four questions, given to a First Lieutenant regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The First Lieutenant ...

Fax of letter from a constituent to Senator Cornyn stating: "I just read a story about 3 CIA personnel who may have killed three prisoners. The Agency submitted their reports to the Justice Dept. Interrogations on non-Americans by the ...

Letter
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
An exchange of letters between Senator Charles Grassley and Assistant Attorney General William E. Moschella regarding the OLC's August 2002 memo defining torture. Senator Grassley initiated the exchange by forwarding to AAG Moschella for response ...
Letter
William E. Moschella, Charles E. Grassley
Chain of CIA emails organizing a meeting to be held on October 20, 2003 at 11:00 a.m.
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of an unnamed Iraqi male following a firefight. The Report states that on March 20, 2005, in the vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq, a man who was engaged with coalition forces ...
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Unknown Iraqi Male, vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq
Physical assault
This is a Memo from John Helgerson, Inspector General (IG) to Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The Memo states that the contents is a Final Report.
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
John L. Helgerson
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Congressman Peter Hoekstra, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad ...
Letter
John L. Helgerson
Pete Hoekstra
John L. Helgerson, Pete Hoekstra
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi