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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Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1506
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1513
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1515
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1516
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Chaplain concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1520
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1524
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1525
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1587
An Army questionnaire, including forty-one questions, given to a Captain regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The Captain responded that one of ...
Sept. 20, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Mar. 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4267
Email string between Carol Santos, Cheryl Parker, Jeremy Caddel and Others concerning "Memo to S about concerns raised by ICRC on U.S. detention practices" in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The comments from Ms. Parker are "PDAS Michele Sison clears ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Cheryl L. Parker
Carol T. Santos | Jeremy D. Caddel | Patricia M. Haslach | Timothy E. Wilder
Carol T. Santos, Cheryl L. Parker
Mar. 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1038
Detainee, Dahm Spah, was an inmate of Abu Ghraib Prison. On or about August 13, 2003 Mr. Spah was brought to the gate by other detainees and was noted to be pulseless and aprieic. Cause of Death: Arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Dahm Spah