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 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4968
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 agent states the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4971
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. A member of the FBI’s CIRG ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4972
A member of the FBI’s CIRG Behavioral Analysis Unit who toured Guantanamo stated they never personally witnessed aggressive treatment or interrogations of Guantanamo detainees, but did hear loud music, people yelling loudly from behind closed ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
J. Stephen Tidwell, Janice K. Fedarcyk, Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4974
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 agent whose tenure of ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual
July 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4977
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 agent who toured ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4979
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 agent touring through ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4980
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 agent stated that ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
Nov. 11, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2438
Memo states that during a recent "welfare visit" a British citizen at Guantanamo informed UK officials that he was "hooded and physically abused" prior to transfer to Guantanamo. In response, the memo states that Paul Butler, the Deputy ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Timothy J. Keating
Timothy J. Keating
Physical assault, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2525
Memo regarding interviews conducted at the DCCP (Displaced Civilian Collection Point) on May 31, 2004. Detainee claims that "while at an unknown location he received no food or water and could not sleep due to very loud American music blaring the ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Cramped confinement, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2324
Memorandum appointing Brigadier General John T. Furlow as the investigating officer for an AR 15-6 investigation into allegations made by the FBI regarding detainee abuse at Guantanamo. Allegations include the use of dogs, impersonation of FBI ...
June 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Bantz J. Craddock
John T. Furlow
Bantz J. Craddock, John T. Furlow
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity