Torture Foia Database

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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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C06541505 Eyes Only- Draft

July 08, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6489
N/A
June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Unknown
Attorney General
EIT

C06541535 Email re Effectiveness of the CIA Counterterrorism Interrogation Techniques

| ACLU-RDI 6496
N/A

C06541711 Email Re: EYES ONLY-- Where we stand re: Abu Zubaydah

| ACLU-RDI 6501
N/A

C06541712 Memorandum of Agreement Between DoD and CIA Concerning the Detention by DoD of Certain Terrorists at a Facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station

| ACLU-RDI 6502
N/A

C06541719 Blue Ribbon Panel Response to Request from Director for Assessment of EIT Effectiveness

| ACLU-RDI 6506
N/A

C06541720 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

| ACLU-RDI 6507
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C05959918 Disposition Memorandum

Dec. 06, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6511
N/A
June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding, Water dousing, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature

C06541721 CIA Report of Audit

| ACLU-RDI 6508
N/A

C06541722 Anticipated Foreign Reactions to the Public Announcement of the US Secret Terrorist Detention Program

| ACLU-RDI 6510
N/A

C06541723 Alleged Use of Unauthorized Interrogation Techniques

| ACLU-RDI 6512
N/A
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