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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Mar. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6640
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the third modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
Mar. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6638
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the fourth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
July 30, 2014 | ACLU-RDI 6636
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract was filed to de-obligate excess FY 2009 funding from Mitchell, Jessen & Associates Account Line. The contract value remains at $76,007,361.
Nov. 14, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6637
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the second modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase contract value to ...
July 01, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6635
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract includes the first modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The modification increases contract value and obligation from $1,183,783 ...
Dec. 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6619
Indemnification Agreement between Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, LLC ("MJA") and the U.S. Government, James Mitchell and the U.S. Government, and Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government. This agreement supersedes the November 8, 2007 ...
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
Jan. 01, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6621
Independent Contractor Contract between Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government.
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen
Nov. 21, 2016 | ACLU-RDI 6825
Expert Declaration of Prof. Kevin Jon Heller in Salim v. Mitchell
Nov. 21, 2016
Other
Kevin Heller
Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud , Obaidullah
EIT, SERE
June 07, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6551
This document is an email sent on June 7, 2006, from [redacted] to [redacted] regarding Dr. Mitchell's 7 June Meeting with the DCI. In the previous release of this document (on June 13, 2016), the name "Dr. Mitchell" was also redacted in the ...
Sept. 30, 2016
Email
James Mitchell , George W. Bush, Michael Hayden
Stress positions, Other Humiliation
CIA | ACLU-RDI 6557
This document, prepared by the Chief of Medical Services, summarizes and reflects upon the rendition, detention and interrogation program. The findings include that in a particular no evidence was found that the use of waterboard produced ...
Sept. 30, 2016
Non-legal Memo
James Mitchell , Bruce Jessen
Abu Zubaydah, Gul Rahman
EIT, SERE, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Facial hold, Walling, Threat, Mock Burial, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity