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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FBI | ACLU-RDI 2985

Handwritten FBI notes regarding military personnel behavior at Abu Ghraib prison. Includes accounts of humiliation. [Documents are handwritten, slightly illegible].

FBI | ACLU-RDI 2982
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
May 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2983
This FBI memo concerns the activities of FBI personnel at Abu Ghraib prison from October 2003 to December 2003. The FBI conducted 15 interviews of military personnel, each being present at Abu Ghraib prison at some point during October 2003 & ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
May 12, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2979
FBI Memo re: Inexorable request country clearance concurrence for FBI personnel traveling to Afghanistan from 22 May through 28 May 2003. In response to a request from the US Department of State (DOS), the FBI will conduct an advance of the ...
Apr. 02, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2980
FBI Memo: Describing interview with detainee, detainee is described as resistant and "allegedly destined for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
Mar. 27, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2981
FBI Memo Counterterrorism to Counterterrorism Tampa (Iraqi task force and SA [name redacted] re: to set lead for the Iraqi Task Force to conduct queries about the significance and/or meaning of a tattoo observed on an Iraqi POW. SA [redacted ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2977
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
May 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2978
FBI interview of detainee at Kandahar holding facility at Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan. An unnamed detainee was interviewed by unidentified FBI Special Agents. During the interview, the detainee stated that he did not espouse anti-American ...
Dec. 31, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2974

FBI Letterhead Memo (LHM) in response to DoD (CITF) (RFA)- FBI agents' interview of an unnamed detainee who recalls being at the Qala-e-Jangi prison facility during the prison uprising against US Forces. Identified several individuals in the ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
Jan. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2975
FBI Interview of Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detainee. Detainee described as uncooperative during several interviews. In one instance, detainee slammed his head against his cell door in an attempt to injure himself, becoming unconscious and ...