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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
July 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3964
Emails between Jonathan B. Schwartz and Diane McBride, Beverly S. Holman and Others re: UK Attorney General Goldsmith. Attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Beverly S. Holman | Diane McBride
JoAnn J. Dolan, Beverly S. Holman, Diane McBride, Jonathan B. Schwartz
July 21, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 4111
Emails between Molly C. Phee, Joshua L. Dorosin and Virginia L. Bennett re: Points on Detainee Issues with attachment. Comments are: "Molly - I've prepared the attached points on the detainee issue and have sent to DOD and NSC for clearance. What ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Molly C. Phee
Molly C. Phee, Joshua L. Dorosin, Virginai L. Bennet
July 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1160
This document relates to an AR 15-6 investigations in to alleged detainee abuse at Ramadi Palace, Iraq – July 11-12, 2003. Sworn statement of a Lieutenant who worked with the Captain involved in detainee abuse. Although the Lieutenant did not ...
July 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1161
Sworn statement of a soldier who witnessed an incident where an Army Captain abused a detainee. The Soldier states he saw the Captain threatening detainees with a gun and treating them in a disrespectful way. This document relates to an AR 15-6 ...
May 16, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement)
Threat, Assault/death
July 20, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1313
The document is part of the Article 32 Proceeding charge package against Sgt. Scott A. McKenzie. It lists grammatical changes to be made to transcripts by page and line.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
July 20, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3635
Letter from a British Citizen denouncing the President's November 13, 2001 Military Order: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War on Terrorism. The letter also expresses the author's regret that six detainees, ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell | George W. Bush
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer
David Hicks, Moazzam Begg, Feroz Ali Abassi
July 19, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1152
Sworn statement of a soldier concerning an incident where an Army Captain is accused of abusing a detainee. Soldier heard that the captain had hit detainees, but had not seen such abuse himself. This document relates to an AR 15-6 investigations ...
July 19, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1171
Sworn statement of a Soldier who was being questioned in relation to an allegation of detainee abuse. This statement is missing the first page of the statement. This document relates to an AR 15-6 investigations in to alleged detainee abuse at ...
July 19, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3469
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Detainee complained of being mistreated by US forces while in detention in Bagram and during his transit to Camp Delta. He pointed to marks on his wrists that he claimed were caused by the shackles. ...
May 18, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
July 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4330
State Department cable summarizes the American Ambassador's Presentation of U.S. Policies on Iraq to 80 Mid-Level Arab Military Personnel. The officers also posed questions concerning U.S. visa policy, but the tone of the questioning was "mild".
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Richard L. Baltimore, III