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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Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6144
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel David Nahmias, regarding his role as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division as well as disputes between the FBI and the Department of Defense ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Christopher A. Wray, Michael Chertoff, John B. Bellinger, III, Bruce Swartz, Patrick Philbin, Laura H. Parsky, Stuart Levey
Mohammed al Qahtani
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6140
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Michael Chertoff, regarding his knowledge about FBI involvement in the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques for detainees as well as the role and interest ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Michael Chertoff, Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, John Ashcroft, Larry Thompson, Jay S. Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John B. Bellinger, III
Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6138
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Pat D'Amuro, regarding his knowledge about the document exploitation group deployed to Afghanistan as well as the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, John D. Ashcroft, George Tenet, Larry Thompson, Michael E. Dunlavey , Marion E. Bowman, Larry A. Mefford, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Andrew Arena, Valerie E. Caproni, Dale L. Watson
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah
Feb. 26, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6135
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Alice Fisher, regarding her knowledge about military detainee matters and her involvement in discussions about the release of enemy combatants from Guantanamo Bay. The ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Alice Fisher, John S. Pistole, Pasquale D'Amuro, Andrew Arena, David E. Nahmias, Bruce Swartz, Laura H. Parsky, Rena Comisac, John B. Bellinger, III, Michael Chertoff, David N. Kelley, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Jay Bybee, Whit Cobb, Christopher A. Wray
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Feb. 26, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6133
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Alice Fisher, regarding her knowledge about the CIA's interrogation techniques gained from either letters, case referrals, or advice memos.
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Alice Fisher
Feb. 23, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6130
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Gary Bald, regarding his knowledge of detainee interrogations and abuses as well as his role in developing guidelines for FBI conduct in detainee interrogations. He states ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Gary M. Bald, M. Chris Briese, Valerie E. Caproni, David E. Nahmias, Stuart Levey, Marion E. Bowman, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, John S. Pistole, John McCain, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Mar. 12, 2001 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5969
This summary of an interview completed by the U.S. Naval Criminal investigative Service with Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazaam Begg, was released by the Department of Defense Office of the General Counsel; the DOD's release letter to the ACLU is ...
Apr. 08, 2009
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Moazzam Begg
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap, Sexual, Threat, Rendition, Use of electricity
July 03, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5813
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Abu Bachir, a Syrian National. Marines and Iraqi National Guard Forces (ING) stopped and searched a vehicle coming from the direction of Syria. A Red Opal a taxi with three (3) passengers. As the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Transcript, Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abu Bachir
Mar. 24, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5771
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Hasan Salih Mohammed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a Task Force 88 raid in Tawara Iraq on February 5, 2007. Mr. Mohammed died of unknown causes while being taken in to custody. His body was ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hasan Salih Mohammed
Aug. 23, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5759
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Hasan Salih Mohammed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a Task Force 88 raid in Tawara Iraq on February 5, 2007. Mr. Mohammed died of unknown causes while being taken in to custody. His body was ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Hasan Salih Mohammed
Physical assault, General