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 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2121
Emails refer to a request for information document. [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2122
Emails discuss detainee abuse investigations. One email asks how many abuses have been reported and how many investigations have been initiated? The Taguba report is also mentioned. Also, a document discussing the operations of the Office of the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2123
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists eight homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2124
Email includes a document discussing the Office of the Provost Marshall General's (OPMG) operations. Activities of the office include 33 CID investigations with 37 dead victims.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2125
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists six unnatural/homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder | James J. Lovelace
Donald J. Ryder, James J. Lovelace
May 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2126
Email includes a document entitled "Allegations of Mistreatment of Iraqi Prisoners." The document contains questions and answers from a May 7, 2004 senate hearing, it states that 122 people are under investigation in 56 detainee death and abuse ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email, Interview (Questionnaire)
Carl Levin, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder
May 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2127
Email includes a "Briefing to Senate Arm Service Committee." It is a briefing on the actions taken by the CID in response to allegations of detainee abuse and deaths. The briefing explains that there are nine death cases still "active pending ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
John Warner
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2128
Emails discuss the Criminal Investigation Command's (CID) interview of a Sergeant with the 372nd Military Police Company regarding allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. One of the emails seeks to learn whether the Sergeant reported abuse ...
May 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2129
Emails discussing a press release update. [Documents not included].
CID | ACLU-RDI 2130
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes that pages, 16058-16091, were referred to CID.