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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Contents Completely Redacted
Entire contents redacted. except "for "Very truly yours, Valerie Caproni, General Counsel."
Feb. 06, 2006
Letter
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
Routing and Transmission Slipr from James A. McAtamney. In the header it reads a memo re: transfer of GTMO
Feb. 06, 2006
Letter
James A. McAtamney
James A. McAtamney
FBI Memo states that the FBI HQ received a phone call from an individual advising the Unit Chief that he had returned to the U.S. and the caller was under the impression that he may be wanted by the FBI for questioning. The memo is otherwise ...
Entire contents redacted.
This is an FBI Case Notes report. The agent who compiled the notes titled it: Afghanistan Torture Case, with the following entry legible " In a case referred to DOJ by Army CID [redacted] contract interpreter who may or may not be a U.S. Citizen, ...
Feb. 06, 2006
Notes
Alex J. Turner, Robert A. Spencer
Emails are redacted, but some discuss the establishment of a joint investigative strategy.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham
Email discusses detainee abuse investigation and an earlier phone conversation, where information concerning an unidentified detainee detention facility was discussed. Contents mostly redacted.
Emails discuss the submission of documents detailing specific information concerning [redacted]. One email reads " this is what started the whole thing." The emails include a sworn statement. Contents redacted.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email, Interview
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle