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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Oct. 20, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2920
This is an email from an FBI agent on a tour of duty at Guantanamo Bay. The email describes the release/repatriation announcement of four (4) Guantanamo detainees. After the announcement the author of the emails reported "unrest" and a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Michael E. Dunlavey
Oct. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2921
Email with an update that four detainees will be released from Guantanamo. The email states "At long last, some excellent news. In the very near future, four (4) Detainees, three (3) Afghans and one (1) Tajik will be sent home. Please keep this ...
| ACLU-RDI 2922
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet referencing an email from CIRG concerning interrogations; Camp Delta; an interrogation update for 10/03-04/02; Mission Statement for CIRG/BAU at Guantanamo.
Sept. 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2923
Email regarding Category IV hurricane "Lili" approaching Guantanamo. "Camp America will be totally vacated by 1400 hours tomorrow (09/25/2002 - Wednesday) and all detainees will be secured away from Delta for at least 48 hours. At 1400 hours ...
Sept. 08, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2924
Refers to attached briefing re: Guantanamo (not linked). Contents Completely Redacted.
Aug. 27, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2925
Unredacted text recommends behavioral team contact authors of attached study (redacted in full). At bottom, references to Psyop Planning Team and PowerPoint attachment labeled TerrorismBrief.ppt. The email is otherwise redacted.
| ACLU-RDI 2926
Contents redacted.
| ACLU-RDI 2927
Summary of an Israeli Supreme Court ruling (downloaded from www.court.gov.il) by Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, holding that the General Security Service (GSS) is not authorized to employ certain investigative methods that involve the use ...
Oct. 02, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2928
Contents Completely Redacted
Oct. 07, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2929
Mention of postponing trip until "end of the month." Contents Completely Redacted.