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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May 18, 2009 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 4608

A list of records that were contemporaneous and derivative to the CIA's destruction of the interrogation videotapes.  The records listed describe the contents of the destroyed tapes.  The list was produced to the ACLU and the Court ...

May 18, 2009
Judicial (Vaughn Declaration/Index)
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
May 01, 2009 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 4606

A letter from the CIA's Office of General Counsel to Judge Hellerstein attaching a Vaughn index of records from August 2002 that describe the contents of the interrogation videotapes destroyed by the CIA.  The letter explains that the ...

May 01, 2009
Letter, Judicial
John L. McPherson
Alvin K. Hellerstein
John L. McPherson, Alvin K. Hellerstein
May 01, 2009 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 4607

A Vaughn index of CIA records, including cables sent from the field to headquarters, relating to the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah.  The CIA stated that the index includes the first half of the records created in August 2002 that describe ...

May 01, 2009
Judicial (Vaughn Declaration/Index)
John L. McPherson
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
Abu Zubaydah
FBI | ACLU-RDI 5178
Email from Inspections Division seeking response from FBI employees who served at GTMO after 9/11/01. The email specifically requests a response from employees who "observed aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on ...
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5194
This document is a response to an email sent on July 9, 2004 by Stephen McCraw to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. The document indicates that a special agent ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Los Angeles FBI Field Office; CI-2
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5237
This response to the Inspection Special Inquiry concerns the TDY of a Special Agent from Houston. It indicates that this agent has never been to GTMO but did two TDYs in Afghanistan. The first TDY was from Sept. 15, 2002 - Nov. 15, 2002, and the ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Houston FBI Field Office; Squad CT-1
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5285
This document is a response to an email sent on July 9, 2004 by Stephen McCraw to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. The document indicates that a special agent ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
San Antonio FBI Field Office
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5375
This document pertains to the Guantanamo Inspection Special Inquiry. This response indicates that a Special Agent from Boston was assigned to Guantanamo for 45 days in July-August, 2002. This agent states that apart from "fluctuations in room ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Boston FBI Field Office
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
Environmental manipulation, Temperature
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5246
This document is a response to an email sent on July 9, 2004 by Stephen McCraw to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. This document indicates that a special ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
New York FBI Field Office; Squad IT-6 JTTF
Inspection Division. Office of Inspections
July 15, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5415
This document pertains to the Guantanamo Inspection Special Inquiry. This is a Response by a Special Agent from FBI New York who did a TDY at Guantanamo from mid-April to late May, 2002. This agent writes that he or she did not observe any ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Non-legal Memo
Joint Terrorism Task Force: DT-2; New York Office
Inspection