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 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2090
Emails discuss an attached request for information document. [Document is not attached].
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2091
The emails discuss an attached document entitled "Tasking Summary Sheet" (the sheet is attached). The sheet includes a summary of reported violations in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Roscoe G. Bartlett, Wayne Curtis Weldon
May 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2092
Emails discuss a "HASC murder board." The emails are heavily redacted. An attached document contains an operations update for the Secretary of Defense.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Ricardo Sanchez, Donald H. Rumsfeld
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2093
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes it withheld photographs, bates pages 15877-15884, pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2094
Emails discuss Carol A. Haave's briefing. The most of the email's contents are redacted.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Carol A. Haave
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2095
Emails reference a PowerPoint entitled "Army Detainee Responsibilities." The PowerPoint is not included in this document.
CID | ACLU-RDI 2096
Document is a PowerPoint presentation from Office of Provost Marshall General discussing designations and responsibilities U.S. Army personnel.
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2097
The original email contains four attachments, including photos from Abu Ghraib (the photos are not included in this document). The "Tasking Summary" is included in the email, its subject is entitled "Investigations." The Summary mentions a final ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2098
Emails discuss a briefing to the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. The significant points from the briefing are attached and included in the email; included in the points is a discussion of whether any team member observed detainee abuse at ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2099
The emails discuss a necessary pre-brief before the personnel debrief the U.S. House of Representatives-House of Armed Services Committee (HASC). The attached and included document outlines of presentation by BG Swan, MG Ryder and MG Romig on ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Duncan Lee Hunter, Donald J. Ryder, Thomas J. Romig, Robin P. Swan