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 11, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6305
The document is an internal FBI memorandum for special agents in charge, regarding the guidelines for conducting FBI investigations overseas. The memorandum includes information on Legal Attaches ("Legats"), leads in foreign countries, ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Robert S. Mueller
Dec. 17, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6309
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman
Dec. 03, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6310
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques. The author of the email, Marion Bowman, states that the FBI does not approve of the harsh interrogation techniques being used ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Pasquale D'Amuro, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Robert S. Mueller
Dec. 04, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6311
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques, and the FBI's participation.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Oct. 04, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6355
The document is part 13 of the Office of Inspector General 02/18/2005 request for documents, but the document is entirely redacted.
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6359
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding legal issues in Guantanamo Bay, specifically interrogation techniques.
May 04, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6369
This document is an email to the FBI asking for help with a project at GTMO. The project is the build town homes with "culturally correct" decor to reward detainees who are highly cooperative. The email also states that Intel Officer Lt. Col. ...
July 24, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4560

A draft psychological assessment of Abu Zubaydah faxed to John Yoo from the CIA.  The assessment provides background information ("for at least a decade, subject has lived and worked within an environment that has condoned, nurtured, ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Psychological)
John C. Yoo
John C. Yoo
Abu Zubaydah
Nov. 20, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4614

This heavily redacted report discusses the interrogation of Al-Nashiri. Very little information is unredacted. [OIG Remand Vaughn #Other-63]

July 24, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4615

This draft psychological assessment of Abu Zubaydah discusses his background, personality, emotional and mental skills, strengths, motivations, and future worldview, among other things. The document refers to the use of "initial ...

Aug. 24, 2009
Non-legal Memo, Medical (Psychological)
John C. Yoo
John C. Yoo
Abu Zubaydah