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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This document is a series of emails relating a possible extradition treaty between the US and Iraq and the rules surrounding Miranda rights.
June 15, 2011
Email
Julie F. Thomas
This document is the first page of a memorandum concerning government responsibilities relating to torture under the U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT) and 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A.
June 15, 2011
Legal Memo
James B. Comey
This document is a fax detailing the work by the FBI with detainees held by the Northern Alliance in Sheberghan, Afghanistan. it concludes that, at this time, no detainee can be considered "safe" and recommends several for transfer to Bagram and ...
This document is an email from redacted FBI officials concerning documentation for detained persons.
The document includes Part 1 of the FBI Manual of Administrative Operations and Procedures (MAOP), which addresses activities and standards of conduct. The document includes information on ethics advice and training, personal conduct regulations, ...
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding the newly created Offense Table and Penalty Guidelines related to the FBI disciplinary process. The guidelines are intended to aid employees in determining the types of behavior that ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller, John S. Pistole
This document is a page listing 104 pages withheld from release and the reasons for their withholding.
This memo from the SSA states that military interrogation techniques and methods are currently under internal review and are receiving major media attention regarding detainee deaths. It states that "hard approach techniques" have been ...
May 17, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation
This is the Death certificate for Luay Mustafa Razzaq Abd-Al. Mr. Abd-Al was found hanging in his prison cell at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq, of an apparent suicide. He was given medical treatment at the ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Luay Mustafa Razzaq Abd Al
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Hospital Death Report and Death Certificate for detainee Ubayd Harhoosh Hamed. Mr. Hamed was a 61-year-old Iraqi detainee of Camp Bucca. He was brought to the hospital after sustaining injuries from ...
May 06, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ubayd Harhoosh Hamed
Physical assault