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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Sept. 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 150
CID report of investigation into a non-fatal shooting inside Camp Bucca, Iraq during a prison riot on September 22, 2003. The investigation determined that the use of live ammunition and the subsequent non-deadly shooting of one of the detainees ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Physical assault
Sept. 22, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 657
Two (2) suspects in the theft from the Iraqi National Guard (ING) Training Camp at Camp Junction City, allege being abused while in custody. Both suspects provided facts "proven to be false and established patterns of not providing the truth". ...
June 28, 2006
Investigative File
Richard F. Natonski
Richard F. Natonski
General, Use of electricity, Cramped confinement, Isolation, Light or sound, Physical assault, Environmental manipulation
Sept. 22, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1016
Autopsy No: ME04-435; Riadh Mohammed Abd Al Razak, a 52 year old male Iraqi civilian, collapsed while speaking to other detainees while in US custody. Resuscitative efforts were unsuccessful. Cause of Death: Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Riadh Mohammed Abd Al Razak
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3247
Email contents redacted.
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3249
Email states that the author has experienced "unfavorable contact" with AUSA Robert Spencer of the Eastern District of Virginai regarding "WFO's failure to more aggressively address pending allegations". Specifically, AUSA Spencer berated an ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Alex J. Turner
Alex J. Turner, Robert A. Spencer
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3250
Contains info regarding Iraq prisoner cases; original e-mail 8/5/2004 sent to Alex J Turner asking whether there is any update on Iraq prisoner abuse case; subsequent e-mail 8/6/2004 copied to Alex Turner states "We have met with Army CID, ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Alex J. Turner
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3254
FBI Memo with emails attached concerning two (2) violent crime referrals: 1) Abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; and 2) [Redacted] incident in Afghanistan. Both referrals have FBI Agents assigned and been deployed to to Iraq and ...
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3255
Email chain requests an update concerning a matter origionaly referred to Public Corruption Unit and mentions AUSA Robert Spencer of the Eastern District of Virginia becoming involved in the investigation. Includes 8/9/2004 e-mail noting that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Alex J. Turner, Robert A. Spencer
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3343
Email from an FBI official requesting Charles Cunningham give an "update on the Iraq investigation you gave to AJ Turner" and is followed with a request by Charles Cunningham to another FBI official to be updated on the matter every two (2) weeks.
May 18, 2005
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham , Alex J. Turner
Sept. 22, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3347
Charles Cunningham and FBI official discuss an update on the Washington Field Office's handling pf certain Iraq abuse cases. Charles Cunningham states that "this is a bit of a hot potato and I don't want to be the one who did not make something ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Charles J. Cunningham
Charles J. Cunningham