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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Feb. 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6241
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding an urgent report about special jurisdiction matters in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The report includes information about pending investigations into the use of highly aggressive interrogation ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Chris Swecker
Chris Swecker, Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Donald J. Ryder
Nov. 19, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6242
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding interrogation techniques and strategies to be employed in interviews with Detainee #63 at Guantanamo Bay. The email details the parties participating in the development of the interrogation ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Judd Alan Gregg
Mohammed al Qahtani
Nov. 16, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6243
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of counterproductive interrogation techniques on Guantanamo detainees by the Department of Homeland Security and the process by which the FBI may raise concerns to the Department of Defense.
June 15, 2011
Email
Marion E. Bowman
Marion E. Bowman, Kenneth L. Wainstein, Frankie Battle
Feb. 18, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6244
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to communications between FBI employees and any other U.S. ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Marion E. Bowman, Patrick W. Kelley, Thomas J. Harrington
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6245
The document details guidelines for conducting Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigations, including delegated investigation/adjudication cases (DIAs), delegated investigations (Dis), and non-delegated cases (NDs). The document ...
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6247
The document is an information sheet that lists pages deleted from this FOIA release (FBI pages given to OIG).
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6248
The document is a memorandum that includes information on military commissions, four Guantanamo detainees, FBI cooperation, and unresolved issues, including transportation and witness preparation.
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, David Hicks, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul
June 02, 2005 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6249
The document includes information about a document request made by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General regarding detainee issues, specifically any documents related to the conduct of operations by FBI employees in overseas ...
June 15, 2011
Other
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington
Dec. 28, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6250
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the collection and compilation of any and all Counterterrorism Division documents related to detainees at Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and particularly documentation of any abuse of detainees ...
Nov. 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6251
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding constitutional issues overseas - specifically the application of the 4th and 5th Amendments to military detainees.
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni