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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Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2833
An FBI memo from Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) personnel at Guantanamo to Commanding General Geoffrey Miller. Contents of the memo are completely redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2837
Memo from FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) and Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) at Guantanamo to Commanding General of Joint Task Force 170, Geoffrey Miller.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
May 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2881
This FBI email mentions disagreements between the DOD and the FBI on how to handle interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo bay. The FBI is advising DOD on techniques that were ineffective in producing reliable intelligence. Email cites example ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
Frankie Battle | Arthur M. Cummings, II | Michael E. Dunlavey | Geoffrey D. Miller | Marion E. Bowman | Valerie E. Caproni
Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman
Mar. 15, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 908
Memo regarding a March 14, 2004 meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross re: Guantanamo. The document is heavily redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
Geoffrey D. Miller
Adolph McQueen, Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III
June 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 909
Memo re: ICRC Meeting of June 19, 2003. Contents redacted
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen, Albert Shimkus
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1939
The email has some comments concerning seeing each other again, but the contents are otherwise completely redacted.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Brittain P. Mallow
Geoffrey D. Miller
Brittain P. Mallow, Geoffrey D. Miller
FBI | ACLU-RDI 3500
Email to Major General Miller, begins by stating the FBI has concerns over [redacted]; ends with the FBI remains in support of the JTE GTMO mission.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4880
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4881
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
June 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4789
Memorandum to General Geoffrey Miller regarding Secretary of Defense (SECDEF), Donald Rumsfeld's memorandum. The memo to Gen. Miller seeks clarification on the use of certain techniques, including a concern about the removal of the Koran from ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
James T. Hill
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James T. Hill
Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Other