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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June 01, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6730
This CIA cable states that a scenario occurred when IC SERE Psychologists entered Abu Zubaydah's cell to begin an isolation phase. The cable is heavily redacted.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT
June 30, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6702
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior on the twelfth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
| ACLU-RDI 6710
This memo sets forth the reasons why the CIA granted Mitchell, Jessen, and Associates (MJA) a "sole source contract" to support the Counterterrorism Center's rendition, detention, and interrogation program, and describes the type of support that ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
Jan. 03, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 6786
This e-mail includes a draft of interrogation training documents for a CIA course with a note concerning Dr. James Mitchell and Dr. Bruce Jessen's role in an upcoming presentation. The draft notes are redacted and are labeled "CIA High Value ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Email
James Mitchell , Bruce Jessen
SERE
| ACLU-RDI 6639
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fifth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to add clause 152.245-714, "Government ...
| ACLU-RDI 6630
This Statement of Work dated June 15, 2005 includes Mitchell, Jessen & Associates' (MJA) Technical Proposal dated April 27, 2005, which lays out the objectives and scope of the Project with the Counterterrorist Center (CTC) (the name of the ...
| ACLU-RDI 6632
This Statement of Work is a revised version of Mitchell, Jessen & Associates' Technical Proposal included in the June 15, 2005 Statement of Work.
Jan. 01, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6622
Independent Contractor Contract between James Mitchell and the U.S. Government.
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
James Mitchell
Jan. 01, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6620
Independent Contractor Contract between Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government.
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen
Aug. 23, 2010 | ACLU-RDI 6681
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the twenty-second modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the Government. The purpose of this modification is to incorporate the settlement cost ...