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. 05, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 541
This US Marine Corp spreadsheet lists twenty-one (21) cases of alleged detainee abuse. The table of cases includes ten (10) substantiated incidents and thirteen (13) unsubstantiated incidents. The incidents include: beating detainees with fists; ...
July 22, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 542
These emails are between Marine Corps officers concerning an updated version of the detainee abuse cases involving Marines. The email has a spreadsheet attached that is not readable in the document; however, the email alludes to details contained ...
July 22, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 543
This US Marine Corp spreadsheet lists twenty-one (21) cases of alleged detainee abuse. The table of cases includes ten (10) substantiated incidents and eleven (11) unsubstantiated incidents. The incidents include: beating detainees with fists; ...
May 26, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 544
These emails are between Marine Corp investigators seeking a marine who is suspected in a detainee abuse case. One officer concludes that the Marine they are looking for is located, but that the photo initiating the investigation was a staged ...
May 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 545
These are emails between Navy NCIS and Army CID investigators concerning a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. The CID investigator is advising that NCIS contact HQ and interview the MWD handler because he gave ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 13, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 546
These emails are an attempt by the Navy NCIS investigator contacting the Army CID Head Quarters in order to track down the Navy personnel with Military Working Dog (MWD) duties who served at Abu Ghraib prison. In addition, the investigator is ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 13, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 547
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel following-up on a request that they provide information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements the Navy personnel may have ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 548
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel requesting that they provide any information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements they may have made to Army CID. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
William J.Kimbro
May 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 549
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel following-up on a request that they provide information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements the Navy personnel may have ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 26, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 550
The Division Chief of the Personal Crimes Department at NCIS requests information regarding a detainee death of which the Division Chief was previously unaware. The email provides a summary of an incident in which a detainee "died of unknown ...