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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An FBI agent states that when he/she was at Guantanamo they did observe treatment that was not only aggressive, but personally very upsetting. He/she states that these (unspecified) techniques were not being conducted by FBI agents, but employed ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Other
Translated Interview of Guantanamo detainee re: conditions/treatment at Guantanamo. The detainee stated he was beaten unconscious approximately three or four weeks ago when he was still at Camp X-Ray. Stated that an unknown number of guards ...
Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, T.J. Harrington, and Others re: Reported incidents of possible detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay. An NAE official reports three incidents he/she witnessed while in Guantanamo Bay on or around ...
Email details FBI investigation of mistreatment, abuse or "highly aggressive" treatment of detainees in Iraq that are known or observed by FBI agents who have cycled through Guantanamo. The email states that fourteen (14) agents have witnessed ...
FBI agent details abuse of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious
FBI agent observed a detainee shackled to a chair with loud rock music playing and a strobe light flashing.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
Internal FBI email requesting agents who served at Guantanamo to submit reports on their observations if abuse of detainees, if any. One (1) agent submitted an abuse allegation.
Indicates an incident wherein a detainee at Guantanamo was the subject of a "Forced Cell Extraction". The email states "the incident described by the detainee matches up with an instance wherein the detainee was the subject of a Forced Cell ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, Jay W. Hood
Other
DOD email concering the outcome of a June 2003 investigation of an incident where Defence Intellience Aagency officials impersonated FBI agents when interviewing detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity