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 13, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 889
Interviewee was assigned to AG sometime in January to interrogate [redacted] general-detainee. Interviewee recounted the following event. The [redacted] general and the son told the interviewee that the [redacted] general's son, who was 17 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 933
This email is to ensure that all FBI personnel touring through Guantanamo Bay and who participate in interrogations of detainees adhere to the Bureaus policies on the treatment of suspects and their own personal conduct when conducting ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Arthur M. Cummings, II | Frankie Battle
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Marion E. Bowman, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Andrew Arena, Laura H. Parsky, Michael E. Dunlavey , Bruce Swartz, Alice Fisher
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2774

Summarizes information received regarding transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to Sheberghan and Pol-I-Charki prisons in Afghanistan. Describes May 9th meeting convened by Pierre Richard Prosper, US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, at which ...

July 29, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2775
This FBI memo is listed as: Memorandum from FBI to Department of Justice - Re. REPATRIATION ISSUES, 07/29/2003 and is almost completely redacted except for two (2) lines: 1) "the FBI proposes that DOJ concur with DOD's recommendation to transfer ...
Sept. 15, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2776
This FBI memo is listed as: Memorandum from FBI to Department of Justice - Re. REPATRIATION ISSUES, 09/15/2003 and is almost completely redacted except for one (1) line: "the FBI proposes that DOJ concur with DOD's recommendation to transfer for ...
Dec. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2777
Contents almost completely redacted. There is one line at the end of the memo that states "the FBI proposes that DOJ concur with DOD's recommendation for continued detention of [redacted detainee's name] at GMTO (Guantanamo)."
Mar. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2778
FBI memo to the Department of Justice re; Repatriation Issues, 03/18/2004. Contents redacted.
Mar. 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2779
FBI memo to the Department of Justice re: repatriation issues, 03/19/2004.Contents redacted, except for "per documentation provided by DoD, the FBI proposes that DOJ concur with DoD's recommendation for continued detention in US DOD control", and ...
May 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2780
FBI memo to the Department of Justice re: Repatriation Issues, 05/07/2004. Contents redacted except for "The detainee summaries have been previously provided and do not contain any material changes." and "In addition, although the FBI concurs ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 2781

FBI Repatriation Evaluation. Notes under heading "Investigative Summary" and "Interview Summary" entirely redacted. FBI "concurs with the DOD's recommendation of release and recommends transfer to continued ...