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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| ACLU-RDI 3181
Discusses Ibn Sheik al Libby being sent to Egypt to be tortured in order to get information from him. "Later, FBI sources complained to me that the Egyptians didn't learn any more from the prisoner than they had."
Dec. 15, 2004
Other
George J. Tenet, Robert S. Mueller, George W. Bush
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3182
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Sept. 06, 1999 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3183
Israel's Supreme Court held that the General Security Service is not authorized to employ certain investigation methods that involve the use of physical pressure against a suspect.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3184
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Dec. 17, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3185
Email concerning Guantanamo Matters. Contents mostly redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3186
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
Apr. 04, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3187
Email to Frankie Battle in response to an email sent by the NCAVC. The author states that this email contains two (2) EC's and they have sent the "main email to both the Miami Division and Counterterrorism". The author also states that they have ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Frankie Battle
Frankie Battle
May 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3188
The only discernable text in this five (5) page email are dates and times of the email and the salutation "Thanks for the heads up. talk to you soon." The email is otherwise completely redacted.
June 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3189
Email details an agent's orientation, notes, meetings and briefings upon arriving at Guantanamo, including touring Camp Delta and Camp IV. Document mostly redacted.
Oct. 16, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3190
Describes logistics and expected outcome of upcoming training workshop by the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)on interviewing extremists.