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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This letter from Amb. Prosper to Margot Kessler of the European Parliament is in response to a letter Ms. Kessler sent to Sec. of State Powell concerning the status and treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. Amb. Prosper states that "The United ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Margot Kessler
Pierre-Richard Prosper, George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell
This letter from Amb. Prosper to Helmut Hausle is in response to a letter Mr. Hausle sent to Sec. of State Powell concerning the status and treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. Amb. Prosper states that "The United States and its Coalition ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Dr. Helmut Hausle
Pierre-Richard Prosper, George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell
This State Department letter concerns an inquiry about a young man apprehended in Afghanistan by U.S. Forces and believed to be held at Guantanamo. The letter states that "It is not the he position of the United States government that it does not ...
This memo discusses the inordinate strain that has been placed on U.S. military resources due to the detention of enemy combatants. The memo briefly explains that other coalition members should be willing to bear a portion of the burden as they ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Sharon E. Ahmad
This memo appears to be talking points regarding the rights of detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Sharon E. Ahmad

This email is a forward of a July 4, 2004 article in the New York Times entitled "Officials Detail A Detainee Deal By 3 Countries" which makes the claim that the U.S. released certain detainees from Guantanamo in consideration fro ...

Dec. 02, 2004
Email
Tom Malionek
Lois Allder | John Blanck
JoAnn J. Dolan
This State Department document is a point-by-point response to an opinion (not enclosed) by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the United Nations former Commission on Human Rights, to the U.S. detention of Al Qaeda operatives and others ...
This State Department letter is from Paul V. Kelly, Assistant Secretary Legal Affairs, DOS to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)concerning an article in the Washington Post dated December 26, 2002 concerning U.S. interrogation methods. Mr. Kelly is ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Paul V. Kelly
Jeff Bingaman
Paul V. Kelly, Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Paula J. Dobriansky
Congressional Correspondence Clearance: Senator Bingaman requesting a copy of a Washington Post article dated December 26, 2002 concerning methods used by the U.S. to obtain information from persons it has detained.
Dec. 02, 2004
Other
Jeff Bingaman
Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr.
DOS Congressional Correspondence Tasker re: Request for Image of Document
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Paul V. Kelly
This Letter from Senator Jeff Bingaman, (D-NM) is an inquiry to State Department Under Secretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky concerning a Washington Post article published on December 26, 2002 which described U.S. interrogation methods ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Jeff Bingaman
Paula Dobriansky
Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Paula J. Dobriansky
This document is a request by Rep. Ike Skelton to the State Department Subject: Requesting when the Department was advised of the February 2004 report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the mistreatment of the detainees in Iraq
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ike Skelton
Isaac Newton Skelton IV
This document is a cover page for an underlying document. It indicates whether the underlying document requires a signature from Paul Kelly. No indication as to what the underlying document is.
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Peggy Cifrino
Paul V. Kelly
This document is cropped and unreadable

Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.

Dec. 02, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld

A document production cover letter from the DOJ and the Navy Criminal Investigative Service to the ACLU, discussing the release of approximately 300 pages of documents in response to the ACLU's FOIA request.

Nov. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Sean H. Lane
Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner, David N. Kelley, N.M. Brock

Executive Summary of NCIS Report of investigation regarding alleged assault of one or more Enemy Prisoners of War (EPW) by U.S. Navy employee in Iraq. Alleged abuse first reported in counseling session in early October 2003 at Naval Hospital ...

Nov. 23, 2004
Investigative File (NCIS)
Physical assault, General

NCIS Report of investigation initiated on June 13, 2003 following notification from officers at Camp Pendleton that, on the morning of June 13, a member of a unit “reported that on the previous evening (12 Jun 03) at a unit party, a ...

Nov. 23, 2004
Investigative File (NCIS)
Physical assault, General

NCIS Report of investigation commenced on June 13, 2003 after officer at Camp Pendleton contacted an NCIS Special Agent to make a statement regarding alleged war crimes committed by a marine, who “was overheard bragging about stabbing ...

Nov. 23, 2004
Investigative File (NCIS)
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Physical assault, General

NCIS Report of investigation commenced on March 31, 2003 after receipt of report that Mr. El Gashame, an Iraqi detainee, had been shot and killed on March 29, 2003. Mr. El Gashame was “a suspected Fedayeen member” (based on a ...

Nov. 23, 2004
Investigative File (NCIS)
Hemdan Haby Heshfan El Gashame
Physical assault, General
Email from Division Chief, Personal Crimes Department, NCIS Headquarters, dated May 25, 2004. Recipient redacted. No text in email. Email sent with attached file "EPW Case Summaries.doc."
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Physical assault, General

This NCIS memo summarizes six (6) separate investigations and one preliminary inquiry regarding the death or alleged mistreatment of enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs). Portions of the report are redacted in full, but the portions that are ...

Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (NCIS)
Farhad Mohamed, Manadel Al-Jamadi, Hemdan Haby Heshfan El Gashame, Naeem Sadun Hatab
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Other
Email between Marines concerning a detainee case spreadsheet and the investigations underway. The attachment is not viewable.
This US Marine Corp spreadsheet lists twenty (20) cases of alleged detainee abuse. The table of cases includes ten (10) substantiated incidents and ten (10) unsubstantiated incidents. The incidents include: beating detainees with fists; holding ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Chart/List
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity
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 ...
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; ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Chart/List
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity
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 ...
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; ...
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 ...
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; ...
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 ...
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; ...
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 ...
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
NCIS Special Agent follows up on a previous email from the Division Chief of the Personal Crimes Department at NCIS, who had requested information regarding a detainee death of which he was previously unaware. The original email provides a ...
String of emails in response to NCIS inquiry into an incident mentioned in a USMC report regarding all Iraqi detainee abuse and death cases. The NCIS official had not heard of one incident concerning detainee who is suspected of dying of head ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Threat, Assault/death
An email forwarding detainee updates as of August 27, 2004. The author notes that NCISRU in Iraq has "opened #14."
The Deputy Assistant Director of the NCIS Counterterrorism Department reports on possible cases of abuse that might be referred to NCIS. The Deputy Assistant Director received a call from the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) regarding ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Mohammed al Qahtani
Use of phobias
The NCIS Division Chief of the Personal Crimes Department reports that they have received three (3) referrals from the Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) regarding alleged detainee abuse at Guantanamo. NCIS held off initiating action ...
Series of emails regarding procedures to follow regarding bodies of deceased detainee at Al-Taqaddum Air Base ("TQ"). NCIS emails instructs recipient to "try to find that body, we’ll exhume if possible." In response to resistance to exhumation ...
Secretary Rumsfeld's memo reiterates and clarifies procedures for investigating deaths of detainees in U.S. custody through reference to a series of previous directives. After a detainee dies, commanders must immediately report the death to the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
The Division Chief, Personal Crimes Department of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service discusses manpower needs at Guantanamo and Iraq and case theory behind investigations, and states "We've held off initiating any action pending the ...
Navy NCIS Middle East Field Office announces temporary deployment of special agents from Bahrain to Iraq because "case load is exploding, high visibility cases are on the rise." A later email attaches the latest case control summary for open Team ...

This is a List/Chart of fifteen (15) pending cases for NCIS Team Iraq as of June 14, 2004.