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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 1859
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes in the sheet that it has withheld a photo depicting a deceased individual pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1861
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD. Bates Numbering Error from 6396-6400.
| ACLU-RDI 1924
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet. Blank Page. Contents redacted.
| ACLU-RDI 1952
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet Blank Page
| ACLU-RDI 1954
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet Blank Page
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1983
Relates to Army Inspector General's (DAIG) assessment of detainee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The purpose of the memo was to conduct a functional analysis of Detainee Operations using Doctrine, Operations, training, Material, Personnel, ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1988
List of photographs redacted in the document Production request re: ACLU v. DOD, No. 1:04-CV-4151 (S.D.N.Y.)
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1989

This appears to be portions of a draft of the report by Army Inspector General Mikolashek on detainee abuse at US facilities overseas. Portions of this report were made public and published. The pages contained herein correspond to pages 16 ...

DOA | ACLU-RDI 1995
Report with observations and assessment of operations at detainee collection points in Afghanistan. This is Chapter 3: Operational Intelligence; Topic D: Collection.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1996
Report with observations and assessment of operations at detainee collection points in Afghanistan. This is Chapter 9: Public Affairs; Topic A: Providing Public Affairs.