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 09, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4732
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
May 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Mar. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4733
This State Department email from Keith Loken forwards several attachements concerning the "Iraq Strategic Transition Plan Matrix" to other State Department officials. Attachements not included.
May 09, 2005
Email
Keith N. Loken
Ted A. Borek | Ronald Bettauer | Mark Clodfelter | Himamauli Das | Michael Dennis | Joshua L. Dorosin
Ronald J. Bettauer, Himamauli Das, Michael Dennis Rogers, Joshua L. Dorosin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Corin R. Stone, David S. Newman , James H. Thessin
May 13, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4734
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
May 13, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1101
Army Memo re: Up-date on Article 32 Investigation of Officer Accused of Detainee Abuse
June 02, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1102
Summarizes detainee death and abuse cases in Iraq, AbuGharib, Ft. Meade. Of 40 deaths, it mentions 5 homicides and 17 death investigations still pending, 114 assault investigations including 6 sexual assaults. Summarizes 91 command ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1103
Responds to inquiry into cases from the 320th military police battalion. Observed assaulting Iraqi prisoners. Describes non-judicial punishments received by three (3) officers, all of whom were redeployed. Signed by Brigadier General Swan.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1104
Corrected report of a an incident where a guard shot a detainee. Correct report was that the detainee moved toward the wire, and place his hands there, so the soldier fired. Details about the charges he faces included.
May 16, 2005
Letter
Physical assault
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1105
Army letter concerning the investigations being conducted by CID.
Nov. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1106
Lists cases and investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases are listed by: Case ID, agency investigating, type, unit/place, date of occurrence, date of report, report by, closed or open, status [redacted], note.
Nov. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1107
Lists cases and investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases listed by: Case ID, agency investigating, type, unit/place, date of occurrence, date of report, report by, closed or open, status, etc.