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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June 24, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3099
Most emails are heavily redacted concerning the Interview protocols (IP) involving a High Valued Detainee at Camp V (Five) at Guantanamo. The first email in the chain states "Although the recommended changes add detail that we believe is ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Janice K. Fedarcyk | J. Stephen Tidwell | Marion E. Bowman
Valerie E. Caproni, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Bruce J. Gebhardt, J. Stephen Tidwell
Use of phobias
Mar. 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3192
FBI Memo re: To Provide Counterterrorism and CIRG Divisions with a Progress Report. Encloses FBI team "Interrogation Strategy". Document heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
M. Chris Briese, Frankie Battle, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3284
Memo discussing an Officials observations while in Guantanamo. Stated that on several occasions, he/she overheard loud music being played and people yelling loudly from behind closed doors of interview rooms. Stated that he/she observed strobe ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Steven C. McCraw, J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk