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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Aug. 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 455
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Abuse Response. General Burns asked for an electronic copy of this response to be send forward. Attachment includes a sequence of events on FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] training ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 456
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Balkans Pre-Deployment Detention Training Requirements. Chain of e-mails confirms that upcoming Balkan units need to be trained on detention facility operations and questions where and how long the ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Donald Campbell
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 457
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Operations before and after May 2004 60 Minutes Broadcast on Abu Ghraib. Army officer discusses training guidence in the wake of the 60 Minutes broadcase about the detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib ...
Aug. 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 458
Email asks whether the experiences of soldiers in the NATO led KFOR operation in Kosovo and their handling of detainees, and any abuse of detainees, could be applied to the handling of detainees in Iraq and in dealing with training and ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
July 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 459
Email from the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army directing all army units to report any Article 15 punishments related to detainee abuse either in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from October 2001 through July 2004 to the JAG.
Aug. 31, 2004 | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 460
A JAG Officer is requesting information from a fellow JAG Officer in preparation of a Capitol Hill briefing on JAG prosecutions of detainee abuse worldwide. A specific case involving the death by shooting of a detainee by a soldier at a detention ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
General, Physical assault
Aug. 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 461

Email references a media query directed towards Lt. Gen. John R. Vines for information about the rationale for determing certain detainees as "Ghost detainees" in Afghanistan and Persons Under Control (PUC) and High Value Targets ...

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Dan K. McNeill
Dan K. McNeill, John Randolph Vines
Aug. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 462
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany.
Aug. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 463
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany
Aug. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 464
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany.