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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Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4905
FBI Memo from FBI Investigative Analyst who toured through Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The Agent states that he did not have any substantive contact with Military Police or other U.S. government personnel at Guantanamo regarding detainee's ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4907
Handwritten notes by an FBI agent who toured through Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The Agent recalls hearing about a rumor, wherein a male detainee was purportedly dressed in female clothing, make-up applied and involuntarily given a lap dance by a ...
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4909
FBI email to FBI field agents encouraging them to report incidents of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. One (1) agent responded that he observed a detainee in a "stress position", but the details are not in his email response.
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Stress positions
Sept. 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4910
An FBI agent assigned to Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay reported that he walked into a Camp Delta observation room and noticed a detainee in an interview room rubbing his leg due to possibly being placed in-a stress position. The detainee was wearing ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions
Sept. 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4912
FBI agent's handwritten notes about his tour of Camp Delta, Guantanamo where he states that he walked into a Camp Delta observation room and noticed a detainee in an interview room rubbing his leg due to possibly being placed in-a stress ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions
Aug. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4914
FBI agent states that he entered an interview room at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay and observed an inmate kneeling on the floor with his forehead on the ground. There was a small amount of blood on the floor near the inmate's face. The inmate's ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Sept. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4915
An FBI agent assigned to Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay states that he entered an interview room and observed an inmate kneeling on the floor with a small amount of blood on the floor near the inmate's face. The inmate's nose appeared to be bleeding. ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Other Humiliation, Sexual
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4919
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The Agent in this response ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4920
FBI memo of interview of detainee at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay concerning the "Portland 7" case in the United States. The agent reports that when the detainee was brought in for the interview, the detainee had a "black eye, facial cuts around ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap
Sept. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4922
FBI Notes re: Handwritten Notes of FBI Agent Touring Through Guantanamo Bay.
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap