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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FBI | ACLU-RDI 6019
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet about approximately 6 pages.
Aug. 06, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6009
An email by an FBI SSA to an FBI agent to make the recipient aware of their "situation/relationships" surrounding an Army CID request for interview. The FBI SSA will be present at the interview merely on behalf at the FBI. The FBI agent is ...
Aug. 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6018
This email, by an FBI SSA, is to all FBI agents who were witnesses to a prisoner's allegations of abuse. The email asks all agents to reach out to a redacted Army official to partake in an informal, voluntary interview, which will be followed ...
July 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5999
Two emails between FBI agents regarding FBI agents who are listed as witnesses in an internal investigation because they had some sort of contact with a prisoner making allegations of abuse. The Army was informed that they would be available for ...
July 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6002
An email between two FBI officials where one asks the other for advice regarding accusations of prisoner abuse being made against two of their agents in Baghdad. The military is asking for access to documents that indicate the two agents ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Thomas J. Harrington
July 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6005
A response by an FBI official to another FBI official providing requested advice regarding alleged accusations of prisoner abuse being made against two FBI agents. The official clarifies that the two agents were not accused of prisoner abuse, but ...
Nov. 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5981
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of the Inspector General enclosing requested materials on detainee issues. The classified materials include items from several internal investigation units, which are to be ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Nov. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5972
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice providing requested material on detainee issues. The classified materials include: 304 documents pertaining GTMO, 19 ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Nov. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5980
A cover letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Office of the Inspector General enclosing requested materials on detainee issues. The classified materials includes: Critical Incident Response Group Behavioral Analysis Unit Volume ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Letter
Charlene B. Thornton
Carol F. Ochoa
Aug. 01, 2002 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4548

An OLC memo concluding that the CIA’s proposed interrogation plan for Abu Zubaydah — which contemplates methods including “insects placed in a confinement box” and “the waterboard” — does not violate ...

Apr. 16, 2009
Legal Memo
Jay S. Bybee
John A. Rizzo
Jay S. Bybee, John A. Rizzo
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, SERE, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Facial hold, Walling, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation