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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Dec. 02, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3177
The author states: "Although we think it's not prudent to dwell on [a certain Lieutenant Colonel's] style and actions, we believe that before the General can fully appreciate what the FBI has to offer, he must first understand what has ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Oct. 26, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3173
Email sender is an FBI official in Guantanamo. He notes that Pentagon was scheduled to repatriate four (4) detainees, three (3), (Afghans) and one (1) (Tajik) to their home countries in late October [2002], and that the same plane will return ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Michael E. Dunlavey
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3174
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Aug. 28, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3172
The author is giving a bullet point up-date on the interviewing of detainees at Guantanamo. The up-dates includes: i) continuing assistance to the FBI/CITF; ii) There is a release package for about 20 detainees now up at Belvoir for authority to ...
FBI | EOUSA | ACLU-RDI 3168
FBI Memo from Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) to Behavioral Sciences Consultation Team (BSCT) re: CITF-BSCT Guantanamo Interrogators Debrief July 31, 2002. Memo states "On July 31, 2002, the CITF Behavioral Sciences Consultation team ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3169
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Apr. 12, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3166
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Behavioral Assessment of Security and Interview Strategies and Training at Guantanamo. Report on Consultation April 2-4, 2002. Contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3167
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Deputy Commander, Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Consultation at Guantanamo July 9-11, 2002. Contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3162
FBI Notes re: Documents Provided to SSA, FBI While Assigned to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Between April-May 2002 and November-December 2003. Contents redacted.
July 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3163
Email from FBI WMD Operations Unit to [Party Redacted] re: Suicide Bomber Profile; Information Guide - Trends - Tactics - Techniques. Contents redacted.