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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ODNI | ACLU-RDI 6658
This document is a memorandum from the chief of the Counterintelligence Evaluation Branch of the Counterespionage Group in the Counterintelligence Center about an interview conducted with John B. Jessen regarding the death of Gul Rahman.
Sept. 02, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Bruce Jessen
Gul Rahman
EIT, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Walling, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
Aug. 08, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6657
This cable provides a report of day 5 of the cycle of interrogation carried out on detainee Abu Zubaydah on August 8, 2002. It includes details of interrogators using a combination of waterboarding, walling, cramped confinement, and hooding in ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Walling, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Aug. 07, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6656
This cable provides a report of day 4 of the cycle of interrogation carried out on detainee Abu Zubaydah on August 7, 2002. It includes details of interrogators using a combination of waterboarding, walling, cramped confinement, and insult slaps ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Abu Zubaydah
Waterboarding, Face slap or insult slap, Walling, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity, Use of water, Physical assault
Sept. 10, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6655
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the nineteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase funding from $75,700,073 ...
July 28, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6654
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the eighteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase funding from $73,700,073 ...
June 17, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6653
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the seventeenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase funding from $73,100,073 ...
Mar. 01, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 6652
This heavily redacted cable provides authorization and authority for Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell to use the full range of level 1 EITs and the level 2 water board. All envelope information is redacted.
Dec. 20, 2016
Non-legal Memo, Cable
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Mar. 02, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6651
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the sixteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to increase the contract value to to ...
Feb. 25, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6650
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fifteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The main purpose of this modification is to increase funding from ...
Feb. 19, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6649
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fourteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $65,403,684 to ...