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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June 18, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 6008
The document is a letter from the Defense Intelligence Agency, regarding the service and honorable discharge of a Marine whose name has been redacted.
Dec. 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5992
The document is a letter from Assistant Director Eleni P. Kalisch of the Office of Congressional Affairs to Senator Patrick Leahy, regarding Senator Leahy's claim that FBI Director Mueller withheld key information about the mistreatment of ...
Letter
Eleni P. Kalisch
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Robert S. Mueller, Patrick Leahy, Eleni P. Kalisch
Dec. 21, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 5990
The document is a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding the FBI's withholding of key information about the abusive treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody overseas.
Letter
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Robert S. Mueller
Patrick Leahy, Robert S. Mueller
| ACLU-RDI 5982
A cover letter entitled: "Responses from: [redacted] Internal Investigations I Unit."
Nov. 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5981
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of the Inspector General enclosing requested materials on detainee issues. The classified materials include items from several internal investigation units, which are to be ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Nov. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5980
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of the Inspector General enclosing requested materials on detainee issues. The classified materials includes: Critical Incident Response Group Behavioral Analysis Unit Volume ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
| ACLU-RDI 5979
This document is a letter accompanying hard copies of EC related to GTMO activities. The author of the letter asks the recipient to upload or serialize the material due to a lack of resources on the author's end.
Nov. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5972
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice providing requested material on detainee issues. The classified materials include: 304 documents pertaining GTMO, 19 ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Apr. 29, 2009 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5971
Through a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU, an 804 out of 845 page document was released regarding an OIG investigation on interrogation of detainees. This document is an explanation of exemptions made in the aforementioned released ...
Oct. 31, 2014 | ODNI | ACLU-RDI 5932
This letter from the Director of National Intelligence to Jameel Jeffer of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of December 9, 2008.
Oct. 31, 2014
Letter
Jennifer Hudson
Jameel Jaffer
Jennifer Hudson