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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Oct. 15, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2858
The document is a response to a request by the DOJ, Office of Assistant Attorney General for FBI comments on detainees appearing before Transfer Review Board. Though the document is heavily redacted, the DOJ's Military Liaison & Detainee Unit ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Jerry R. DeMaio
Jerry R. DeMaio
Oct. 15, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2860
The document is a response to a request from the DOD, Criminal Investigation Task Force that the FBI Military Liaison & Detainee Unit (ML&DU) conduct a records check of detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board. ML&DU "conducted a ...
Oct. 15, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3313
Human Rights Watch claims that the detention facilities being operated by the CIA are un-lawful and requests to visit the detention facilities in Afghanistan. CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller replies that the CIA is operating lawfully and ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
George Tenet | Condoleeza Rice | Scott W. Muller
George J. Tenet, Condoleeza Rice, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Scott W. Muller, Antonio Taguba, George W. Bush, William J. Haynes, II
Oct. 15, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4878
Fax cover sheet from Human Rights Watch/Asia to the CIA re: "We would very tioch appreciate if this Letter could be delivered to Director Tenet. A hard copy will also be mailed. Thank you very much." No attachments.
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
George Tenet
George J. Tenet
Oct. 15, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5060
Chain of CIA emails organizing a meeting to be held on October 20, 2003 at 11:00 a.m.
Oct. 13, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 986
Requests "general, honorable" discharge in lieu of court martial for SSG [Redacted] for the following crimes: pointing a weapon at Taza police prisoner's head (mouth), striking a detainee, tripping a detainee, striking a detainee in the face and ...
Oct. 13, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2236
Presentation discusses the task force's mission, identifies detainee operations issues and provides recommendations. Included in the slides is a map of the Abu Ghraib complex.
Feb. 15, 2006
Other
Ricardo Sanchez
Oct. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 300
This memorandum establishes the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for security internees under the control of CJTF-7. It recognizes that security internees who are civilians and who are detained pursuant to Articles 5 and 78 of the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Oct. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 934
General Sanchez establishes guidlines (attached) for all interrogations and states in this memo that: the interpreters are civilians who are subject to the Geneva Conventions; the interrogation techniques are only for “security internees under ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
Oct. 12, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 6425
This document is a memorandum establishing interrogation and counter-resistance policy for the Combined Joint Task Force Seven in Baghdad, Iraq. It encourages the segregation of detainees "to ensure the success of interrogations and to prevent ...