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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Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6177
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with detainee Moazzem Begg, regarding his general knowledge of incarceration in Egypt, his allegations of being threatened by two FBI agents, and his experiences being detained and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Moazzam Begg
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6172
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Larry Thompson, regarding his knowledge of concerns about overseas detainee treatment, his advocacy for civilian control of Iraqi prisons, and discussions about the status ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Larry Thompson, John D. Ashcroft, Richard Lee Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, Pasquale D'Amuro, Michael Chertoff, David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Bruce Swartz, Robert S. Mueller
John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6170
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of EC's from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, the military's interrogation techniques and strategies, and his experiences serving in ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Marion E. Bowman, Thomas J. Harrington, Donald J. Ryder, Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle, Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael B. Steinbach
Mohammed al Qahtani
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6168
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his knowledge of FBI operations and involvement at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, detainee-related issues that were brought by the FBI to the ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Patrick Rowan, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, John B. Bellinger, III, John S. Pistole, Kenneth L. Wainstein
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6153
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Bruce Swartz, regarding the provision of numerous documents that he has found for the Office of the Inspector General, including newspaper articles, Israeli Supreme Court ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Bruce Swartz
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6152
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Bruce Swartz, regarding his knowledge about FBI concerns related to the mistreatment of detainees as well as his knowledge related to incidents of alleged detainee ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Bruce Swartz, Alice Fisher, Michael Chertoff, Christopher A. Wray, John Richter, Laura H. Parsky, John B. Bellinger, III, John Ashcroft, Larry Thompson, David E. Nahmias, Thomas J. Harrington, Pasquale D'Amuro, Geoffrey D. Miller
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6149
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about legal issues raised about the interrogation techniques employed in a redacted detainee's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. The ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Robert S. Mueller, Alice Fisher, Michael Chertoff, Christopher A. Wray, Larry Thompson, John Ashcroft, David Ayres, Patrick Philbin, Whit Cobb, Condoleeza Rice, Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6146
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his knowledge about issues related to the treatment or interrogation of military detainees. He states that he regularly raised concerns about the ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Whit Cobb, Marshall Billingslea, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Stuart Levey, John B. Bellinger, III, Christopher A. Wray, Michael Chertoff, Larry Thompson, James B. Comey, John Ashcroft, Arthur M. Cummings, II, John S. Pistole, Robert S. Mueller, David N. Kelley
Moazzam Begg
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6144
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his role as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division as well as disputes between the FBI and the Department of Defense ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Christopher A. Wray, Michael Chertoff, John B. Bellinger, III, Bruce Swartz, Patrick Philbin, Laura H. Parsky, Stuart Levey
Mohammed al Qahtani
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6140
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Michael Chertoff, regarding his knowledge about FBI involvement in the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques for detainees as well as the role and interest ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Michael Chertoff, Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, John Ashcroft, Larry Thompson, Jay S. Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John B. Bellinger, III
Abu Zubaydah