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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Nov. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2917
Email between FBI Officials re: FBI Draft Electronic Communications from Guantanamo.
Nov. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2918
Memorandum requesting observations/ recommendations of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) concerning the day-to-day operation of the Guantanamo Project. The memorandum was approved by Stephen Wiley and Frankie Battle. ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle, Stephen R. Wiley
Oct. 20, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2920
This is an email from an FBI agent on a tour of duty at Guantanamo Bay. The email describes the release/repatriation announcement of four (4) Guantanamo detainees. After the announcement the author of the emails reported "unrest" and a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Michael E. Dunlavey
Oct. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2921
Email with an update that four detainees will be released from Guantanamo. The email states "At long last, some excellent news. In the very near future, four (4) Detainees, three (3) Afghans and one (1) Tajik will be sent home. Please keep this ...
Sept. 08, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2924
Refers to attached briefing re: Guantanamo (not linked). Contents Completely Redacted.
Aug. 27, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2925
Unredacted text recommends behavioral team contact authors of attached study (redacted in full). At bottom, references to Psyop Planning Team and PowerPoint attachment labeled TerrorismBrief.ppt. The email is otherwise redacted.
Oct. 02, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2928
Contents Completely Redacted
Oct. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2929
Mention of postponing trip until "end of the month." Contents Completely Redacted.
Oct. 08, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2930
Email only states "Hello from GTMO" and "That's it for now. More to follow after the aforementioned meeting." Contents Completely Redacted.
Nov. 15, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2931
Mention of discussion between Special Agent in Command (SAC) and HQ regarding some unspecified issue needing follow-up. The email states "Talked with the SAC and HQ re: the issue raised in your conference call...earlier today. I think we have ...