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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July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4979
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 touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4980
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 stated that ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4981
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 touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Sleep deprivation
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4982
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 touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Sleep deprivation
Apr. 21, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4958

Detainee interviewed at Camp Delta, Guantanamo does not complain of his own treatment, but does relate a story he heard occurred at Guantanamo where a female interrogator removed her blouse, embraced the detainee from behind and put her hand ...

Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, Sexual, Threat, Assault/death, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
July 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4957
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. The agent stated "I did not ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Physical assault, Sexual, Other Humiliation, Religious
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4880
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4881
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Aug. 05, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2474
A FBI agent's statement of incident where he interviewed a detainee at Guantanamo on 08/05/2005. It was this agent who was bitten by the detainee as the detainee attempted to attack the interpreter. The agent states [the detainee] lunged out and ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti
Aug. 09, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2475
An FBI agent discusses a detainee interview conducted on 08/05/2005 that became violent. The agent details an exchange between the detainee and interrogator(s). The agent states that the detainee initially refused to leave his cell for an ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti