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 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 545
These are emails between Navy NCIS and Army CID investigators concerning a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. The CID investigator is advising that NCIS contact HQ and interview the MWD handler because he gave ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 548
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel requesting that they provide any information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements they may have made to Army CID. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
William J.Kimbro
May 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 549
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel following-up on a request that they provide information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements the Navy personnel may have ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 14, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 650
U.S. Marine Corps investigation into death of Awayed Wanas Jabar. Jabar was taken in to custody on April 17, 2004. He sustained a head injury in an escape attempt. A doctor examined him and said he was “OK”. A guard witnessed Jabar take his ...
May 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
James N. Mattis
Walid Tawfiq Jabar
Stress positions, Other
May 14, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 738
Newspaper article entitled,"Nevada national guard soldier says she reported no prisoner abuse." Article on National Guard Specialist, Donna Menesini. Menesini stated she was the 'older female soldier' who was mentioned during an Article 32 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Other
Donna Menesini
May 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 797
This statement of the Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade discusses his assumption of command of the military intelligence operations component at Abu Ghraib prison in July 2003. He discusses his chain of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Walter Wojdakowski, Ricardo Sanchez, Steven Boltz, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Donald J. Ryder, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Sleep deprivation, Other Humiliation, Other
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 847
Interviewee was assigned to Iraq in the third week of April, and traveled to AG approximately five times from early October to late January. Interviewee's visits to AG were related to "checking on the support of CACI contracted personnel." Sworn ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Steven Boltz, Thomas Pappas, Barbara G. Fast
May 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2048
These emails between Army Officers concerns the Taguba Report with Highlighted Training Issues for them to discuss at length.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Julian H. Burns
Julian H. Burns, Antonio Taguba
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2091
The emails discuss an attached document entitled "Tasking Summary Sheet" (the sheet is attached). The sheet includes a summary of reported violations in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Roscoe G. Bartlett, Wayne Curtis Weldon
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2094
Emails discuss Carol A. Haave's briefing. The most of the email's contents are redacted.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Carol A. Haave