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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DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Request to Interview Detainees at Guantanamo
Memo from an Investigating Officer requesting an extension of an Army Regulation (AR) 15-6 investigation.
Preliminary autopsy report of General Abed Mowhoush, who died on November 26th, 2003 after being interrogated at the Al Qaim detention facility in Iraq. The cause and manner of death are listed as "pending".
Jan. 14, 2014
Medical (Autopsy)
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
State Department cable from Washington to a U.S. Embassy acknowledging receipt of a diplomatic note concerning certain Guantanamo Detainees. The cable states "The national[s] at Guantanamo is being held as ' an enemy combatant[s] and are being ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Ronald W. Miller
Describes two incidents of detainee abuse. One was assault and threat to kill a detainee. Second was assault by four soldiers from 320 battalion.
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Michael J. Marchand
Details abuse of Iraqi detainee at Gunner Collection Point. During interrogation of detainee, an Army officer threatened to shoot detainee. Held detainee's head in barrel and shot into the barrel. Discusses Article 32 investigation.
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Assault/death, Threat
Contents almost completely redacted. There is one line at the end of the memo that states "the FBI proposes that DOJ concur with DOD's recommendation for continued detention of [redacted detainee's name] at GMTO (Guantanamo)."
The document is a response to the DOJ, Office of Assistant Attorney General request for FBI comments on detainees set to appear before the Transfer Review Board. The Military Liaison & Detainee Unit (ML&DU) provides (almost fully redacted) ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Patrick Rowan
Patrick Rowan
This is an Army memo discussing a phone conversation an investigating officer had with a reporter with Reuters concerning footage the reporter recorded while accompanying the Alpha Company, 588th Battalion on a November 22, 2003 raid.
This Army memo identifies the interpreter and interrogator an investigating officer used for an Army Regulation 15-6 (Procedures for Investigating Officers and Boards of Officers investigation) investigations.