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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June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1232
PowerPoint presentation discussing and depicting methods for applying handcuffs and leg restraints on detainees.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1233
DOD PowerPoint presentation discussing the use of force on detainees. Establishes different levels of force from verbal persuasion to deadly force, when to use each level of force and the authorization required at each level.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1236
DOD PowerPoint presentation discussing procedures for cell block/compound guard duties and methods for maintaining detainee accountability.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1237
DOD PowerPoint presentation discussing staff procedures when in close confinement, including controlling access to cell block and segregation of detainees.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1239
DOD PowerPoint presentation discusses procedures for visiting a detention camp.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1240
DOD Presentation discussing steps to take for forcibly moving an uncooperative detainee including the use of restraints, pepper spray, and/or straightjacket.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1241
DOD PowerPoint discusses the use of non-lethal force against detainees during disorders and disturbances. Provides instructions on riot control.
Nov. 12, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1185
Investigation into allegations of larceny, looting, failure to obey a general order, accessory after the fact and conspiracy. Case involves ten soldiers who allegedly stole $4,000 and 700,000 Iraqi dinars during a combat cordon and search of an ...
Jan. 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 494
Commander's report of a 15-6 Investigation and Courts-Martial, dated December 2003. This document pertains to allegations that U.S. soldiers broke the jaw of an Iraqi high school boy. There is evidence that suggests the 311th MI personnel and/or ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Photograph, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
David Petraeus
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Walling, General, Threat, Assault/death, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Forced physical training
Dec. 28, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 148
A Colonel new to a military Company found movie entitled “Ramadi Madness” on the hard drive of the combat Company’s computer in the Company’s facilities in St. Augustine, Florida and reported the matter to CID. The movie was a composite of ...