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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Apr. 05, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5997
The document is an internal FBI memorandum sent from the Counterterrorism Division to all divisions, regarding the establishment of the Terrorism Incident Response Protocol (TIRP) - a tool to improve the efficiency of responses to acts of ...
Non-legal Memo
Counterterrorism Division
Frankie Battle, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Thomas G. Donlon, M. Chris Briese, Robert A. Blecksmith
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4971
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. A member of the FBI’s CIRG ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4970
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. While touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Gary M. Bald, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4969
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 agent states that he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4961
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 agent related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4949
This memo 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 Agent responds to a ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Arthur M. Cummings, II | Frankie Battle
Steven C. McCraw, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle
July 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4950
This memo 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 agent responds "I saw ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Valerie E. Caproni
Steven C. McCraw, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, Valerie E. Caproni
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious
May 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4925
FBI Memo re: Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU) Challenges Encountered at Guantanamo Bay. No additional pages; no content.
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Mey, Marion E. Bowman, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi, Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4913
FBI email to FBI field agent encouraging them to report any knowledge of abuse of detainees at Guantanamo. One (1) agent stated he observed "aggressive techniques used by non-FBI interrogators" and the reply he received was to report what he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3530
The document's synopsis reads: "To document information concerning the impersonation by DOD interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba who represented themselves as officials of the FBI in conjunction with interrogation techniques not endorsed by the ...
Feb. 06, 2006
Non-legal Memo
David E. Nahmias, Valerie E. Caproni, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity