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 17, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6388
This document is a list featuring descriptions of various abuses that occurred throughout Afghanistan. Most of the abuses involved slapping and punching.
June 15, 2011
Chart/List
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Facial hold
Oct. 26, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6387
This document is a email chain discussing recommendations concerning interviews and interrogations made in a former email.
June 15, 2011 | ACLU-RDI 6386
This document is a page listing pages withheld from current release, as well as reasons for the withholdings.
Nov. 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 6385
This document is a letter from the US Army trial counsel responsible for prosecuting Specialist [redacted] and Sergeant [redacted] "in connection with detainee abuse at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility." The letter mentions a New York ...
Oct. 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6384
This document is a memo regarding an investigation into allegations of detainee abuse. Investigation was initiated due to a letter from a detainee, alleging that he was "taken from Camp Cropper to an unknown location during the beginning of Jun ...
Sept. 01, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6383
This document is a heavily redacted sworn statement by an FBI Special Agent as part of "an administrative inquiry regarding an allegation that SA [redacted] engaged in possible prisoner abuse while on military deployment in Iraq."
Oct. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6382
This is an email chain focusing on the prison transfer and potential of prosecution for one detainee. An official raises broader questions of what it means to participate in the interrogation of a detainee and how the FBI can not implicate ...
June 15, 2011
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
May 18, 2015 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6381
This document is a lengthy email from a FBI agent who repeatedly expresses discomfort with FBI interrogation methods. He reports being "placed in a very precarious situation" and "asked to do something I fest was wrong given what FBI agents can ...
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6380
This document is an email chain discussing acquiring agents for an interrogation and the allowability of various interrogation methods. One email mentions that "due to the issues at Abu G prison," interrogations have been suspended but "will in a ...
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6379
This memo from the SSA states that military interrogation techniques and methods are currently under internal review and are receiving major media attention regarding detainee deaths. It states that "hard approach techniques" have been ...
May 17, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation