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. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3704
Fax from Beth Ryley to Linda Muncy and Tom Johnson re attached letter from Theo Van Boven. The letter is addressed to Kevin Moley and reminds him of the obligations to refrain from torture and to investigate allegations. The letter poses ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Beth Ryley
Linda Muncy | Tom Johnson
Oct. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4102
Email from Ronald Miller to JoAnn Dolan with attachement entitled: Letter - Prosper to OSD. Attachement not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Oct. 06, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1660
Medical records of a 21 year-old Iraqi male detainee held in the Hard Site at Abu Ghraib prison, Baghdad, Iraq. The report states the detainee was a passenger in a car that was in an accident ten (10) days prior to his detention. No additional ...
Oct. 06, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1763
Army Provost Marshal Compliance Inspection Report: Brigade Central Collection Point (BCCP) Compliance Inspection.
Oct. 06, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3908
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees.
| ACLU-RDI
Oct. 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2076
This Army memorandum concerns dismissing certain charges against certain soldiers involved in detainee abuse to avoid Court-Martial proceedings and the legal consequences of such an action. The contents of the memo refers to the soldiers ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Threat
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 237
Interrogation Rules of Engagement for the 205th MI Brigade, Iraq. Sets forth techniques for use on detainees, of which, including isolation for more than 30 days and the presence of military working dogs, requires the Commanding General's ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Other
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1085
Log of response to physical complaints made at Abu Ghraib. Complaint and remedy logged. Prisoner identification redacted.
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1086
Detainee was a prisoner at the Hard Site, Cell 1A Tier, at Abu Ghraib prison. The detainee complained of an old injury to his left thigh and was seen by doctor for a foreign body in the inner thigh. Object was a bullet that was removed and wound ...