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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OLC | ACLU-RDI 6166
Considerably redacted talking points on the legal standards that apply to interrogations of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Gharib and Afghanistan. The notes specifically talk about Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, Article 16 of the ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6150
A cover sheet called "GTMO Special Inquiry" with the following information written on the sheet: "Emails received which were individuals: not on GTMO, wrong identity, Afghan."
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6143
A considerably redacted two column chart with abbreviations on the side of one column. Handwritten information on the page includes: "GTMO"; "33 Responses"; "Second LIST."
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6142
FBI deleted page information sheet including one deleted page.
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6141
An email by an FBI agent regarding an observation of a non-FBI approved tactic being used on a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The FBI agent reports observing a detainee sitting on the floor of a room with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud ...
Aug. 30, 2004
Email
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Other
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6184
The document is an FBI memorandum that has been heavily redacted. The memorandum includes information about the Department of Defense Joint Task Forces, the Joint Interagency Interrogation Facility (JIIF), and five issues for consideration - ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6180
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6132
AN FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet showing one page had been deleted.
| ACLU-RDI 6173
The document is a slip sheet containing the project name "GTMO" (Guantanamo) and the document image key (OIG-INTV-000028).
| ACLU-RDI 6147
The document is a slip sheet containing the project name "GTMO" (Guantanamo) and the document image key (OIG-INTV-001053).