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 11, 2009 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6577
This June 11, 2009 OLC memo from David Barron states the withdrawal of an additional OLC opinion regarding CIA interrogation methods. The decision to withdraw was made in connection with the consideration of this opinion for possible public release.
Aug. 31, 2016
Legal Memo
David J. Barron
Attorney General
David J. Barron
July 08, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6489
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June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Unknown
Attorney General
EIT
| ACLU-RDI 6496
N/A
| ACLU-RDI 6501
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| ACLU-RDI 6502
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| ACLU-RDI 6506
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| ACLU-RDI 6507
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Dec. 06, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6511
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June 13, 2016
Non-legal Memo
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding, Water dousing, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
| ACLU-RDI 6508
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| ACLU-RDI 6510
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