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.

Search Result (6709)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
| ACLU-RDI 4515
Draft document with attachments describing "permissible interrogation techniques" and necessary approval for those techniques. The document also mentions waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
| ACLU-RDI 4516
Heavily redacted typed draft outline. References interrogation techniques and waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
| ACLU-RDI 4517
Heavily redacted outline. References waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
| ACLU-RDI 4518
A heavily redacted checklist, references waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Chart/List
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
| ACLU-RDI 4519
This document is comprised of two parts, a checklist and a draft of a report. The document is heavily redacted, but references waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Chart/List
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
CIA | ACLU-RDI 4520
A heavily redacted memorandum from the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence to the Deputy Director for Operations, the DCI Counterterrorist Center, and Senior Deputy General Counsel re the Interrogation of Abu Zabaydah.
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
| ACLU-RDI 4521
Heavily redacted report regarding the "successful raid and capture of Abu Zubaydah". The document references the use of waterboarding during Abu Zabaydah interrogations. The document also mentions that waterboarding was used in the interrogation ...
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
| ACLU-RDI 4522
Heavily redacted and typed draft outline and plan identical to Other Document #87. The document mentions waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
Sept. 05, 2003 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 4523

A heavily redacted summary of an interview by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General, of Scott W. Muller, the CIA's general counsel. The interview summary discusses viewing videotapes, the approval of waterboarding during the interrogation ...

May 27, 2008
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Scott W. Muller
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Aug. 12, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4524

A heavily redacted cable from the field to CIA headquarters relating to the status of Abu Zubaydah.  The unredated portions refer to the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah.

May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo, Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding