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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May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 996

Autopy No.: ME03-273; 45 Iraqi male civilian detainee died in U.S. custody 12 hours after a reported escape attempt. Physical force was required to subdue the detainee, and during the restraining process, his forehead hit the ground. Cause ...

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Physical assault
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2084
Emails discuss an attached PowerPoint (ppt.) on enemy POW detention and interrogation, the ppt. was forwarded to different recipients. [PowerPoint slides not attached].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Stephen J. Curry
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2085
Emails discuss request for information (RFI) Summaries. In the attached document it reads that the first task is to identify the parties with knowledge of the blunt force trauma and injuries sustained by the Iraqi Major General detainee. The ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Physical assault, General
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2086
The email includes a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary." The chart states there are 83 detainee abuse investigations, 28 of the abuse cases involve detainee death investigations.
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2489
PowerPoint presentation to Sec. Def. Rumsfeld on detainee operations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. States that there is no evidence of non-compliance with Department of Defense orders at either facility save for "some minor infractions." These ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Other
Albert T. Church | Duane D. Thiessen
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Albert T. Church, Duane D. Thiessen
May 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2514

Sign-in sheet for a Temporary Holding Facility (THF) stating that the undersigned "have read and understand the THF and Policy Memorandum and will enforce the Policy and SOP'S during [their] duty shift at the THF." States that ...

May 11, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2734
Heavily redacted email referring to talking points on Iraq.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Rena Comisac | John Richter | Christopher A. Wray | Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Bryan Sierra
Rena Comisac | John Richter | Christopher A. Wray | Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Bryan Sierra
Rena Comisac, John Richter, Christopher A. Wray, Laura H. Parsky, David E. Nahmias, Bryan Sierra, Mark Corallo
May 11, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2747

Refers to MEJA Materials-Statute, DOJ Guidance Memos, Final Draft of DOD Regulations. States that there are 4 attachments. All other info redacted.

Oct. 15, 2004
Letter
David E. Nahmias
Jack L. Goldsmith | Christopher A. Wray | Laura Parsky | Patrick Rowan
David E. Nahmias, Jack L. Goldsmith, Laura H. Parsky, Patrick Rowan, Christopher A. Wray
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3622
DOS Note cover sheet with handwritten notation sent from Jack Straw to Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleeza Rice and George Tenet are CC'd. No other relevant text.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jack Straw, Condoleeza Rice, George J. Tenet, Frank E. Schmelzer
May 11, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3715
This letter is from U.N. Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights and Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Asma Jahanglr to U.S. Ambassador Moley, the U.S. Permanet Representative of the U.S. to the U.N. in Geneva. the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Asma Jahangir
Kevin Edward Moley
Jeffrey DeLaurentis