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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Chart shows the ebb and flow of media coverage on detainee abuse since January 2004.
Emails discuss notes from a Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research (TIGER) Team meeting. The email mentions that Lieutenant Kieth Alexander thinks there may be a pattern between critical events and abuses (e.g. riots-abuses; ...
Email includes an executive summary entitled "Adverse Action taken against MP leaders identified in MG Taguba's Report of Investigation." The summary discusses Major General Antonio Taguba's report, which recommended a series of disciplinary and ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba, James R. Helmly, David D. McKiernan, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez
Email includes an executive summary entitled "Adverse Action taken against MP leaders identified in MG Taguba's Report of Investigation." The summary discusses Major General Antonio Taguba's report, which recommended a series of disciplinary and ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski, David D. McKiernan
Executive summary lists the names of Army reserve military police soldiers who were all administratively discharged from the Army prior to their scheduled court-martial hearings for offenses committed at Camp Bucca, Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
James R. Helmly, Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Michael Diamond

Emails discuss the handling of detainee death and abuse cases, authors comment on the investigations and different training techniques being used as a result of the reports and investigations. Included is an Associated Press article which ...

The executive summary, dated May 5, 2004, contains a table listing Military Police officers from the 377th Military Police Company who were flagged for various offenses. The pending investigations concern the deaths of two Bagram detainees ...
The email sets up a review of Major General Taguba's report.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Antonio Taguba
This Court Martial record (volume 2 of 8) discusses the court martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick, II, who was charged for offenses he committed while assigned to the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility on or about November 08, ...