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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Aug. 02, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3281
This email 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. This FBI official observed a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw
Physical assault, Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other
Aug. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3278
Memo from CIRG-Crisis Management Unit (CMU) to CIRG. CIRG presented an operations and resource briefing to FBI Assistant Director (AD) Pasquale J. D'Amuro and his staff. The memo provides a summary of the presentation to the AD [contents ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Pasquale D'Amuro, Frankie Battle, Thomas Carey
June 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3279
Documentation of Critical Incident Response Group/Behavioral Assessment Unit on-site assessment of the interview process at Guantanamo. Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley
Cassandra M. Chandler
Cassandra M. Chandler, David W. Szady, Pasquale D'Amuro, John S. Pistole, Stephen R. Wiley, Mark A. Hilts, Kenneth H. Senser, Thomas F. Lewis II
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3276
Memo from National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) (Miami and Philadelphia) summarizing protocol and the mission of personnel dispatched to Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of providing behavioral assistance to the ongoing ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole
Aug. 28, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3277
Memo from CIRG/NCVAVC/BAU West to Miami summarizing the details of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) duties in GTMO. Detailing that the NCAVC currently is rotating two SSAs every 45 days to assist with the GTMO ...
Mar. 25, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3274
Memo from CIRG/NCVAVC/BAU East to Counter terrorism- Miami summarizing protocol and the mission of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) personnel dispatched to Guantanamo to prepare interview teams with behavioral ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle, Hector M. Pesquera, C. Frank Figliuzzi
Mar. 10, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3275
Memo states that on 01/30/2003, a redacted SSA provided training to 75 U. S. Army Reservists in the area of 'Profiling' as part of the Army Intelligence Center's 'Intelligence Support to Counter Terrorism' Course. The training was part of a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle
May 21, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3272
Memo from CIRG NCAVC/Behavioral Analysis Unit-East to Counter terrorism- Miami. BAU was asked to provide some specific training related to issues identified while observing interviews at Guantanamo. Discusses meetings/consultations with various ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle
Apr. 21, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3273

Memo from CIRG NCAVC/Behavioral Analysis Unit-West to Counter terrorism- Miami. FBI personnel temporarily assigned to Guantanamo detail their activities and observations. Provided in the memo is a summary of the training received during ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Mark E. Safarik, Frankie Battle, Sean Wilson, Mr. Antonitas
Aug. 07, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3271
Memo from CIRG NCAVC/Behavioral Analysis Unit-East to Counter terrorism- Miami. BAU was asked to provide some specific training related to issues identified while observing interviews at Guantanamo. Discusses meetings/consultations with various ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle