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 statement from an unknown military suspect concerning his/her knowledge of allegations of mistreatment of Manadel Al-Jamadi, who was held at Abu-Ghraib while in the custody of Foxtrot Platoon, SEAL Team #7. This military ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Physical assault
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 ...
CIA copy of a DOA letter addressed to the CIA's Office of General Counsel. In the letter Captain Christopher Graveline, Judge Advocate, states that he has been appointed trial counsel for the prosecution of five individuals in relation to ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Letter
Christopher Graveline | Captain | Judge Advocate
Christopher Graveline
This memorandum of understanding is between the Joint Interrogation and Detention Center (JIDC) and all external agencies who want to house detainees in cell block 1A and 1B at Abu Ghraib. The stated goal of the agreement is to eliminate the ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Isolation
This DOD memo for Attendees of the IC Leadership VTC from the Iraq Survey Group relates to the capabilities of the Joint Intelligence Debriefing Centre. A significant portion of this document is redacted.
This document is the CIA's copy of a sworn statement detailing the interrogation of General Abed Mowhoush who was held at the Al-Qaim detention facility in Iraq and died after being interrogated on November 3, 2004. This statement was included ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
This document is the CIA's copy of one of many sworn statements regarding the interrogation and subsequent death of Iraqi Major General Abed Mowhoush. This statement is also included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. The ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault
This document is the CIA's copy of the sworn statement of an anonymous military personnel from the 1st Battalion 5th Special Forces Group, which is included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. The CIA version contains ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), UCMJ
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
This Coalition Provisional Authority memo provides a mechanism for facilitating the partnership between the Multinational force-Iraq (MNF-I) and the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG). It establishes a Joint Detainee Committee (comprised of ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
L. Paul Bremer

This article describes the investigation into the death of an unidentified Iraqi detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison. A photograph of the detainee's body, which the LA Times calls one of "the most indelible images yet made public," ...