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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Dec. 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6619
Indemnification Agreement between Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, LLC ("MJA") and the U.S. Government, James Mitchell and the U.S. Government, and Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government. This agreement supersedes the November 8, 2007 ...
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
Jan. 01, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6621
Independent Contractor Contract between Bruce Jessen and the U.S. Government.
Nov. 23, 2016
Other
Bruce Jessen
Nov. 21, 2016 | ACLU-RDI 6825
Expert Declaration of Prof. Kevin Jon Heller in Salim v. Mitchell
Nov. 21, 2016
Other
Kevin Heller
Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud , Obaidullah
EIT, SERE
| ACLU-RDI 6507
N/A
Mar. 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5111

DOD PowerPoint presentation on the detainee population, detention procedures, prosecutions, and transition issues in Iraq. The presentation provides the nationalities and numbers of detainees held, as well as other information about the ...

Jan. 14, 2014
Other
L. Paul Bremer
| ACLU-RDI 5141
Cover page of Close Quarters Defense Student Guide, Level One for Protective Operations. Author's name redacted.
| ACLU-RDI 5143
This document is a selected chronology of representative documents concerning U.S. interrogation policy and legal requirements. While the bulk of the document is redacted, the chronology includes references to OLC memoranda from Jay S. Bybee and ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Other
Alberto R. Gonzales, Jay S. Bybee, William J. Haynes, II, John C. Yoo, John A. Rizzo
| ACLU-RDI 5115
Two pages of a Human Rights First report that includes a profile of the homicide of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi citizen captured and tortured in Abu Ghraib by Navy SEALS and CIA personnel. Al-Jamadi died on November 4, 2003 after being tortured ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Other
Human Rights First
Manadel Al-Jamadi
EIT, Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault
May 04, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5121
CIA copy of the complete text of the Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Policy Brigade by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba (the U.S. Army's report on Iraqi prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad). The report is also known ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Other
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, David D. McKiernan, R. Steven Whitcomb, Kinard J. La Fate, Donald J. Ryder, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Jerry Phillabaum, Donald J. Reese , Janis Leigh Karpinski, Luciana Spencer, Jeremy C. Sivits, Sabrina D. Harman, Javal Sean Davis, Lynndie Rana England
Dec. 23, 2013 | ACLU-RDI 5126
Printer sheet from a top-secret agency system. The document states that "human review of each page" is required prior to dissemination from agency control.