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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This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fifth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the sixth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fourth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
EIT, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the seventh day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
This heavily redacted cable states requests to employ "additional interrogation tactics" to move Abu Zubaydah into "forthcoming posture" regarding future terrorist attacks. The cable says to refer to the redacted text below for the particulars ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the eighth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the ninth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
This is a report from interrogators at COBALT, a CIA black site in Northern Kabul, Afghanistan, describing the status of Gul Rahman's interrogation. It is reported that Rahman was not responding to interrogation by Bruce Jessen; the responder ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Non-legal Memo, Email, Cable
Bruce Jessen
Gul Rahman
EIT, Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the tenth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the eleventh day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation