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 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4816
This document is a statement by a Marine who was present during an alleged incident, which occurred between a detainee and a fellow Marine. The incident described is related to ACLU RDI 4813.
July 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4817
This is a statement by a marine regarding their knowledge of detainee abuse. The Marine mentioned only knowing of one incident where a fellow Marine said "ass" to a detainee. The Marine mentioned detainee, Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov, but did ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Interview (Transcript)
James N. Mattis
Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov
Other
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4891
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 "Per the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4904
FBI Memo from FBI agent who toured through Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The Agent states that he did not observe or participate in any aggressive or inappropriate interviewing or techniques, however, he does recall hearing about a rumor, wherein a ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4913
FBI email to FBI field agent encouraging them to report any knowledge of abuse of detainees at Guantanamo. One (1) agent stated he observed "aggressive techniques used by non-FBI interrogators" and the reply he received was to report what he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4919
This memo 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. The Agent in this response ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4924
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 "I did ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Steven C. McCraw
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4948
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay from February 10 to March 27- 2003. He does not have anything to report concerning any suspected or ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4949
This memo 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 responds to a ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Arthur M. Cummings, II | Frankie Battle
Steven C. McCraw, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Frankie Battle
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4961
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 related the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature