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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A Marine provided a statement in which he/she described an event in which a Marine was scolded for possible detainee abuse. The official stated that he/she witnessed a guard holding a shotgun while a detainee appeared to be sitting down and ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Interview (Statement)
Other
This is a statement by a marine regarding their knowledge of detainee abuse. The Marine mentioned only knowing of one incident where a fellow Marine said "ass" to a detainee. The Marine mentioned detainee, Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov, but did ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Interview (Transcript)
James N. Mattis
Abdullah Tohtasinovich Magrupov
Other
This Army memo includes five letters of reprimand issued to Army officers, a Major, Captain, Second Lieutenant, First Sergeant and a Staff Sergeant, assigned to the Alpha Company, 588th Engineers Battalion. The reprimands were issued after an ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Other
This email is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This FBI agent states that he ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Stress positions, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay from February 10 to March 27- 2003. He does not have anything to report concerning any suspected or ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo, Email
Steven C. McCraw
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
U.S. Marine Corps investigation into death of Awayed Wanas Jabar. Jabar was taken in to custody on April 17, 2004. He sustained a head injury in an escape attempt. A doctor examined him and said he was “OK”. A guard witnessed Jabar take his ...
May 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
James N. Mattis
Walid Tawfiq Jabar
Stress positions, Other
Email refers to a proposed press release from the Commanding General discussing the detainee death and abuse investigations. [The press release is attached, the first page of the attachment is blank]. The press release explains that there are ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Other
Email includes two proposed copies of Donald J. Ryder's briefing to the Senate Arms Service Committee. One of the briefings is enclosed, it mentions that there are 69 CID investigations, forty-two of the sixty-nine cases involved incidents that ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Carl Levin, John Warner, Donald J. Ryder
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Other
Email discusses six hot button issues [redacted] found in a Captain's report that is written in response to Major General Antonio Taguba's report. Also, the Captain's report comments on omissions made by MG Taguba in his report, omissions the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Other
Emails include a tasking summary and a CID detainee abuse summary/chart. The summary provides that the CID is investigating: 80 violations (in facilities), 38 detainee deaths, 38 assaults, 3 sexual assaults, and a theft; 43 violations (outside of ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Other