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. 12, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6162
This document is a cover letter to the ACLU enclosing 1 released page for a FOIA request. The letter also identifies exemptions made in documents under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOIPA), Title 5, United States Code, Section ...
Aug. 04, 2009 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 6161
A letter written in response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request relating to the Office of Inspector General's investigation into the interrogation of detainees. The letter notifies Mr. Jaffeer that the U.S. Army Criminal ...
July 02, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6159
This document is a cover letter to the ACLU enclosing 977 released pages for a FOIA request. The letter also identifies exemptions made in documents under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOIPA), Title 5, United States Code, Section ...
July 03, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6156
This document is a cover letter to the ACLU enclosing 847 released documents for a FOIA request. The letter also identifies exemptions made in documents under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOIPA), Title 5, United States Code, Section ...
May 01, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6154
This document is a cover letter to the ACLU enclosing 842 released documents for a FOIA request. The letter also identifies exemptions made in documents under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOIPA), Title 5, United States Code, Section ...
Jan. 07, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6134
A cover letter enclosing material related to an October 29, 2004 request. Materials include: positive and negative responses to AD McGraw's July 9, 2004 email; one CD containing photographs; list of agents at Guantanamo Bay; an electronic ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Carol F. Ochoa, Charlene B. Thornton
Dec. 30, 2011 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6129
The document is a letter from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General to the ACLU's National Security Project, regarding the ACLU's April 22nd, 2008 FOIA request. The letter is a cover letter for summaries of interviews conducted ...
Letter
William Blier
Jameel Jaffer
Andrew Arena, Gary M. Bald, Michael Chertoff, Pasquale D'Amuro, Alice Fisher, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Larry Thompson, David Ayres
June 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6120
The document is a series of documents related to the service of a Major deployed as the Officer in Charge of the DH HAT Team. The document includes a personal letter from a member of the OIC's team, certificate of release/discharge from active ...
Aug. 18, 2011 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6117
The document is a letter from the Records Management Division of the FBI to the National Security Project of the ACLU, regarding the final release of documents related to FOIA request 1129744 - specifically Office of Inspector General SITREPS.
Letter
Alexander Abdo
Feb. 26, 2010 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6109
The document is a letter from the Department of the Navy to the ACLU National Security Project, regarding an ACLU request for information pertaining to the interrogation of detainees. The request is partially denied and certain portions of the ...
Letter
Jameel Jaffer