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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Identities of sender and recipient redacted. Sender works for HQ and states that "EAD Pistole wants some talking points by noon today on the quality of DoD's interviews at GTMO. I am going to pull bullets from the attached EC. If you have any ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
John S. Pistole
Email from individual who indicates he is "TDY at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba," which has "a key and close working relationship with DOD, specifically JTF-170. DOD has designated JTF-170 as the command responsible for developing intelligence from the ...
Two emails from the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)'s Behavioral Assessment Unit (BAU) regarding a two-day BAU workshop November 5 and 6, 2003 re: interviewing extremists. First email indicates that the workshop is to take place at ...
Deleted Page Information Sheet
This FBI memo describes the workgroup that brings together Behavioral Analysis Unit personnel in order to incorporate their skills and experience in to a practical guide for personnel involved in conducting interviews of Al-Qaeda and Taliban ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle
Deleted page information sheet that references "Detainees 2733-2736" and "Detainees 2753-2756."
The document contains two electronic communications that relate to Guantanamo (attachments not provided).
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Pasquale D'Amuro, Andrew Arena
The document discusses the Joint Intelligence Interrogation Facility (JIIF) at Guantanamo and the various investigative agencies that are assisting in interviewing and building cases against detainees.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Pasquale D'Amuro
These are emails between FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit and FBI officials stateside. The email is an update on the BAU’s progress and activities while at working with other agencies at Guantanamo The author mentions that they are continuing to ...