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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May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2111
The emails reference attached executive summaries that discuss the Army's interaction with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2112
Emails refer to an attachment - "EXSUM - DODIG [Department of Defense Office of Inspector General] & DOJ and request for cases." [Document is not included].
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2113
Email refers to an attached document that discusses internment operations and law of war training. A particular paragraph in the document outlines the Army's rules/guidelines, stating soldiers do not kill or torture enemy prisoners.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Jay Alan Liotta, Donald J. Ryder
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2114
Emails reference an attached document, which discusses the Army's interaction with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2115
Emails refer to a Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) document related to an independent panel to review DOD detention operations and an Office of the Provost Marshall General (PMG) task summary sheet.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2116
Email includes a presentation entitled "Deaths of Detainees Under US Military Control." The presentation states that as of May 19, 2004, there have been 63 detainee deaths: 58 deaths in Iraq and 5 in Afghanistan. The 58 deaths in Iraq were ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2117
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
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2118
Emails reference a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Prison deaths." [The PowerPoint presentation is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2119
Emails refer to a document entitled "Detainee Tasking Summary PMG 20 May 04 update." [The document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2120
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