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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Sept. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5978
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email, Interview (Statement), Other
Investigative Technology Division TPS/RSDU
Counterterrorism Division
Sept. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5977
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email, Interview (Statement), Other
Investigative Technology Division TPS/RSDU
Counterterrorism Division
Nov. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5976
Email by FBI Special Agent Jon E. Bibnik responds to an Inspection Division request about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO detainees." Bibnik responds affirmatively and recounts an ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email, Interview (Statement), Other
Jon E. Bibnik SA FBI
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5974
This special inquiry document reports that an inspector requested an SSA previously detailed to GTMO to provide a statement of observed behavior regarding the treatment of military detainees at the facility. Said SSA witnessed no aggressive ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Interview (Statement), Other
CJIS Programs Development Section/Global Initiatives Unit/Module C-3
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections