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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Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee accused Pakistani Police with giving him electric shocks and U.S. troops of beating him. He said he was yelled at by interrogators in Kandahar and then admitted to lying to them ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Use of electricity
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay by the FBI and the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF). The detainee states when he was captured in Afghanistan he was beaten, hit in the head with a rifle and threatened with being shot ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
FBI memo to Department of State on the capture and processing of 1,300+ detainees in Afghanistan in late 2002. Summarizes FBI investigative activity in Afghanistan and the interviews of captured Taliban fighters.
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee appeared to be in ill health and coughed constantly during the interview. He was provided with water during the interview, but it had no effect on his coughing. Detainee states ...
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about his conditions he stated that the guards at Camp Delta are not bad. Camp Delta is a prison and sometimes, the guards are "not good" with the detainees. That is ...
An email between FBI officials discussing how the FBI should approach interrogations in Afghanistan, and specifically discussing the need for guidance. The email focuses in part on the differing approaches of the military and the FBI to ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Frankie Battle | Gary M. Bald | Thomas J. Harrington
Frankie Battle, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington
This FBI memo is a condensation of interview notes of a Saudi national captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo. The Saudi was in Afghanistan during the time of the Taliban and when they fell he was captured. After being ...
Detainee stated that the statments he made when captured in Afghanistan were un-true. He went on to state that he believed the Americans "interviewers are pigs and animals" and "if given the opportunity [he] would kill him". He concluded by ...
Letter from David N. Kelley, DOJ to Lawrence Lustberg, of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Grriffinger & Vecchione, P.C., attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Partially redacted. Letter states "Dear Mr. Lustberg: Enclosed please find a ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Letter, Judicial
David N. Kelley | Sean H. Lane | Stewart F. Aly
David N. Kelley, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner, Stewart F. Aly

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 ...