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. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3353
Memo states that the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) was to provide behavioral assistance to the ongoing intelligence gathering mission involving the Detainees being held at Guantanamo.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Andrew Arena
June 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3279
Documentation of Critical Incident Response Group/Behavioral Assessment Unit on-site assessment of the interview process at Guantanamo. Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Cassandra M. Chandler
Cassandra M. Chandler, David W. Szady, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole, Stephen R. Wiley, Mark A. Hilts, Kenneth H. Senser, Thomas F. Lewis II
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3276
Memo from National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) (Miami and Philadelphia) summarizing protocol and the mission of personnel dispatched to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of providing behavioral assistance to the ongoing ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole
Jan. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3112
FBI Memo from EAD Pistole to Counter-terrorism, attn: Gary M. Bald, M.Chris Briese, and Valerie E. Caproni re: 315E-HQ-1448534, 01/27/2004. Interrogation team, Baghdad, seeks authority to question the subject without reading the subject warnings ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3098
An unidentified individual informed the FBI Sacramento Field Office of numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees he/she observed in Iraq. The individual described that such abuses included strangulation, beatings, placement ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Physical assault, General, Other
May 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2855
The document reiterates existing FBI policy that, "FBI personnel may not obtain statements during interrogations by the use of force, threats, physical abuse, threats of such abuse or severe physical conditions." It also states that abuses should ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
John S. Pistole, Valerie E. Caproni
June 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2828
This memo is describing the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit's (BAU) On-Site Assessment of Interview Process at Guantanamo in 2002. It notes that other U.S. government entities have conducted behavioral assessments at Guantanamo. Enclosed is a BAU ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Pasquale D'Amuro | John S. Pistole | Kenneth H. Senser | Thomas F. Lewis II | Andrew Arena | David W. Szady | Hector M. Pesquera | Cassandra M. Chandler
John S. Pistole, Pasquale D'Amuro, Kenneth H. Senser, Thomas F. Lewis II, Andrew Arena, David W. Szady, Hector M. Pesquera, Cassandra M. Chandler, Michael E. Dunlavey
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