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 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
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 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2442
DOD Presentation re: Deaths of Detainees Under U.S. Military Control PowerPoint Presentation.
May 20, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2524
CID Report regarding allegations by 2 detainees at Camp Cooke of aggravated assault and prisoner mistreatment between April 23, 2004 and May 8, 2004. One detainee alleged that he was "coerced into a confession through beatings by the FPS ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault
May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2994

E-mail between [redacted] to [redacted] re: Revised Draft of EC & Enclosures. Email states a revised draft of the EC and two enclosures are attached. The revised draft of the EC and one of the attachments is classified as SECRET.

May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3053
Sender asks recipient to disseminate EC. Contents heavily redacted.
May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3066
FBI email regarding a proposed Electronic Communication (EC) memo dealing with the treatment of detainees. Heavily redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Cassandra M. Chandler | Gary M. Bald | Eleni P. Kalisch
Valerie E. Caproni, Cassandra M. Chandler, Gary M. Bald, Eleni P. Kalisch, John S. Pistole
May 20, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3217
Fax cover sheet, subject: Letter to Attorney for client from CPA which was coordinated with AUSA John Klein and SA [redacted]
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Laura M. Laughlin
Laura M. Laughlin