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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July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5192
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, a motor vehicle operator for a total of ...
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5193
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, a motor vehicle operator for a total of ...
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5195
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, a motor vehicle operator for a total of ...
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5196
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, a motor vehicle operator for a total of ...
July 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6291
The document is a memorandum from the Department of Defense, regarding approved methods of interrogation. The document includes information on documents related to the Administration's interrogation policies, a congressional subpoena proposed by ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carl Levin, John Warner, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Alberto R. Gonzales, John D. Ashcroft, George Bush, Jay S. Bybee, John C. Yoo, William J. Haynes, II, Mary Walker, James T. Hill, Robert J. Delahunty, Colin L. Powell, William Howard Taft, IV, Antonio Taguba, Patrick Philbin, James C. Ho, Daniel J. Bryant, Ricardo Sanchez, Marc Warren
July 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1079
This medical report on a 30 year-old Iraqi male detainee who complained of dizziness when standing was diagnosed with rheumatic heart. There are no details on the detainee or where he is housed.
July 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1134

Email attaching an Assessment of the Biometric Automated Toolset software system used throughout the detention procedure at Abu Ghraib. Report claims it is functioning at 75%.

May 16, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
July 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2603
Sworn statement of a Major concerning the instructions to he gave to his soldiers on handling detainees once captured, and discussing regulations concerning paperwork for detention and detention time limits. States, "The longest I think we would ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Richard P. Formica
July 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2604
Sworn statement of Statement of Sergeant Major Concerning Detainee Interrogation Operations at Rawaniya Palace Complex Baghdad and discussing detention policies. States, "The CISOF and FOB detainee policy was to do field interrogation, process ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Richard P. Formica
July 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2755
Email referring to to unclassified version of Department of Justice Criminal Division comments on OLC opinion. The rest of the email contents are redacted.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Teresa L. McHenry
Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Barry Sabin | Ronnie Edelman | Michael J. Mullaney
Teresa L. McHenry, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Barry Sabin, Ronnie Edelman, Michael J. Mullaney