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 6675
This document contains interview notes of a redacted official discussing their knowledge of the events surrounding Gul Rahman's death. The interview discusses different detention conditions at the COBALT site and the kinds of conditions Gul ...
Sept. 02, 2016
Cable, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Bruce Jessen
Gul Rahman
EIT, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity
Apr. 12, 2007 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6629
This document is testimony given by Steven Bradbury, acting Assistant Attorney General of the OLC before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The testimony contains Mr. Bradbury's summary of the four legal standards that apply to the ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Interview (Statement)
Steven G. Bradbury
Steven G. Bradbury
EIT
DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6456
Audio of an interview of Moazzem Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, conducted by the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General, as part of its report on the FBI's involvement in the mistreatment of detainees. You can listen to the audio below ...
Interview (Statement)
Moazzam Begg
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death, Rendition, Family/others, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation
June 23, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6440
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/23/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...
May 04, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6433
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 5/4/06. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in an air conditioned room with his hands free and his feet shackled to a bolt in the floor. The synopsis states that the purpose of the ...
Nov. 01, 2011
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
May 14, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 6432
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 3/14/03 and states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta. The document is heavily redacted.
| ACLU-RDI 6431
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 7/18/02. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta and is mostly redacted.
| ACLU-RDI 6430
This documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 5/18/02. It states that the detainee was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but seems to imply that the detainee declined to be interviewed.
| ACLU-RDI 6429
This document is mostly redacted. The synopsis states that it responds to the lead sent by Legat Riyadh to show photos of individuals involved in the RIYADHBOMB investigation to GTMO detainees.
| ACLU-RDI 6428
This document documents the interview of Detainee 269 at GTMO on 6/27/03. It states that Detainee 269 was interviewed in Arabic at Camp Delta, but is largely redacted.