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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Apr. 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1378
Questionnaire asked the Staff Sergeant thirty-seven questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Staff Sergeant stated no standards, only "experience" to conduct interrogation. Also, responded that new ...
Apr. 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1379
Questionnaire asked the Staff Sergeant fifty questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Staff Sergeant stated there were no written procedures in place for when a detainee died in US custody. ...
Apr. 08, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1532
Refers to AR 15-6 investigation's conclusion that the JDOG personnel investigated did not mistreat a person and that allegations were unsupported by evidence. The interrogation was of a high valued detainee at Camp Delta Guantanamo on March 23, ...
July 22, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Jay W. Hood
Physical assault, General, Other
Apr. 08, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2468
Detainee alleged that he was abused while in custody of US forces at Camp Bucca. The detainee claims he was wrongly arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and had his money ($160,000US) stolen. Once released, detainee filed a complaint with the ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Sexual, General
Apr. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2810
The document provides the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board (heavily redacted).
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Patrick Rowan
Patrick Rowan
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1363
Questionnaire asked the Chaplain a number of questions regarding Detainee operations. Chaplain responded that he/she was not aware of detainee abuse. [Contents redacted].
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1364
Questionnaire asked the Sergeant First Class forty one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Contents redacted].
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1373
Questionnaire asked the First Lieutenant twenty-three questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. In re whether detainees reported abuse, the First Lieutenant responded "Complained all the time, so not ...
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1375
Questionnaire asked the Chaplain a number of questions regarding Detainee operations. Chaplain responded that detainees could not bring in their Koran. Described a "rumor" in which "big guys in with interrogators in for psychological threat. . ...
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1376
Questionnaire asked the First Lieutenant a number of questions regarding detainee operations, soldier morale and soldier training, among others. First Lieutenant responded that he/she was not aware of detainee abuse. [Contents redacted].