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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June 02, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4329
State Department cable concerning the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe considering a Resolution calling the U.S. to task for holding persons in custody in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay without the formal procedures normally ...
June 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4789
Memorandum to General Geoffrey Miller regarding Secretary of Defense (SECDEF), Donald Rumsfeld's memorandum. The memo to Gen. Miller seeks clarification on the use of certain techniques, including a concern about the removal of the Koran from ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
James T. Hill
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James T. Hill
Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Other
June 03, 2003 | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1893
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). The ...
June 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1175
Description of allegations of two occasions in which soldiers used "mock executions" as scare tactics when dealing with Iraqi detainees. On the first occasion, an Iraqi boy was threatened with a loaded weapon, which was discharged immediately to ...
June 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4307
Emails between Ronald W. Miller and Christopher N. Camponovo in response to a query by the Mexico City Embassy requesting information on children detained at Guantanamo. Mr. Miller responds that the DoD will only acknowledge that all detainees at ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Christopher N. Camponovo
Ronald W. Miller, Christopher N. Camponovo
| ACLU-RDI
June 05, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 194
This email pertains to an investigation in to possible violation of law concerning the interrogation of a Bosnian national found that “at the time of the incident, there were no specific guidelines regarding interrogation techniques of detainee ...
June 05, 2003 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 530

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
June 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3161
Email appears to be personal email to FBI personnel from an unknown sender. Subject: "hello, FBI-Guy" and "the letter". Contents redacted except for "I'll be in at 10:30 Friday morning. I'll check around to see if you're still here at that time."
June 05, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3189
Email details an agent's orientation, notes, meetings and briefings upon arriving at Guantanamo, including touring Camp Delta and Camp IV. Document mostly redacted.