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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May 31, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3201
Entire contents redacted.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3202
FBI Memo re: The Role of the Behavioral Analysis Unit at Guantanamo Bay. The memo discusses a problem, offers background and provides possible solutions to the problem. In the memo, it states:"This document is intended to describe an ongoing ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3203
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3204

Entire contents redacted.

FBI | ACLU-RDI 3205
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
May 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3206

In late 2002 and continuing into mid-2003, the Behavioral Analysis Unit raised concerns over interrogation tactics being employed by the U.S. military. As a result, this electronic communcation, dated 5/30/03, was generated summarizing the ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Physical assault, General
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3207
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
Dec. 13, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3208
This is a letter from an attorney representing a person detained by the U.S. to FBI Director Robert Mueller. In the letter the attorney states that he has reached out to DOD General Counsel William Hayne and Attorney General Ashcroft concerning ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Robert S. Mueller
William J. Haynes, II, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft, Robert S. Mueller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3209
FBI deleted page information sheet for pages that were duplicative of pages already processed for release.
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3210

Testimony of Valerie Caproni, FBI General Counsel, before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Entire contents redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni