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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Sept. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5987
This document is a statement signed by an FBI Special Agent in the presence of a Supervisory Special Agent. The agent recounts their assignment by the Defense Humint Services Headquarters to lead a Humint Augmentation Team in support of a special ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Interview (Statement)
Use of water, Other, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4886
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 states that he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Stress positions, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other
Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4887
These emails are a response to for a request for feedback from FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo and witnessed detainee abuse. An agent responded and wrote "I did observe treatment that was not only aggressive, but personally very ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity, Environmental manipulation
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4890
Handwritten notes on observations of detainee interrogations at Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The FBI agent notes that he saw a detainee "chained hand/foot" in a fetal position; detainees urinated & defecated upon themselves; and the temperature of the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation, Environmental manipulation
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4909
FBI email to FBI field agents encouraging them to report incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. One (1) agent responded that he observed a detainee in a "stress position", but the details are not in his email response.
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Stress positions
Sept. 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4910
An FBI agent assigned to Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay reported that he walked into a Camp Delta observation room and noticed a detainee in an interview room rubbing his leg due to possibly being placed in-a stress position. The detainee was wearing ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions
Sept. 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4912
FBI agent's handwritten notes about his tour of Camp Delta, Guantanamo where he states that he walked into a Camp Delta observation room and noticed a detainee in an interview room rubbing his leg due to possibly being placed in-a stress ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4952
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
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4960
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 related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4961
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 related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature