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. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2361
The index lists this document as: SA [redacted] FD 302 from FBI dtd 9 Sep 04.
SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2362
Heavily redacted memo from Joint Task force 160 requesting Joint Detention Operations Group support for an operation. The email authjor states that "This request has been reviewed by my Staff Judge Advocate and determined to be legally sufficient".
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2363
The index lists this document as: Summarized Witness Statement
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2364
The index lists this document as: Interrogation Level Timeline
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2365
The index lists this document as: Summarized Witness Statement
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2366
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2367
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
Dec. 12, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2368
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 21 Dec 02. Heavily redacted document. The only visible line states "The detainee ate a complete meal and drank an entire bottle of water...The detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised".
Dec. 21, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2369
The index lists this document as: Memo for the Record dtd 21 Dec 02. Heavily redacted. Talks about medics taking vital signs of detainees. All normal, but "needed to drink water".
Dec. 23, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2370
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 23 dec 02. Heavily redacted. "Detainee seen by medic at 21:30 hours. His vitals were normal. Detainee taken to the latrine and exercised a couple of times during the night".