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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Sept. 14, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5118
General Sanchez states in his memo that "[this] memorandum established the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for CJTF-7." The memo contains two enclosures: 1. Interrogation Techniques; 2. General Safeguards. Gen. Sanchez states that ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez, Daniel Kazmier
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Other
Sept. 13, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 140
Incident date: 9/1/03. Investigation of abuse of detainees at Camp Muleskinner, Baghdad, Iraq: maltreatment of prisoners; assault; making a false oficial statement; accessory after the fact; obstruction of justice; and dereliction of duty. ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault
Sept. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1651
Medical report on a 22 year-old Iraqi Soldier, Kurdish, suffering from the effects of a car bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. The soldier suffered Zygotic Orbital Fracture, a Maxillary Fracture and Shrapnel Wounds about his body.
Sept. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1865
Informal investigation into the shooting death of Iraqi national detainee, Obeed Hethere Radad. The shooting officer, a Specialist (SPC), stated that he shot Radad because he was under the belief that a handcuffed Radad was trying to escape. ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Raymond T. Odierno
Obeed Hethere Radad
Physical assault, General, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Other
Sept. 13, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1906
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by Criminal Investigative Task Force Saudi Team (LSA-1) along with Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Sept. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 493
Memo concerns the appointment of an investigating Officer for an informal inquiry of Task Force Iron Gunner Detainee Operations. Iron Gunner looked at procedures for identifying Iraqi national's for detention; Tactics, techniques, and procedures ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Sept. 12, 2003 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1864
This document is a heavily redacted Report by investigating officers pertaining to an AR-15 investigation in to a matter out of Forward Operating Base Raider, Tikrit, Iraq. There is no a narrative or discernible fact or specifics in the report.
Sept. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1781
Investigation into incident where a detainee was shot & killed at FOB Ironhorse on 9/11/03. Medics had advised guards that detainees in isolation could get up and walk around to relieve discomfort and pain. An MP saw detainee touching ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Physical assault, Other
Sept. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3886
State Department cable from Kuwaiti Embassy to State Department re: Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper Discusses Iraqi War Crimes and Guantanamo. The cable states that Amb. Pierre-Richard Prosper met with Committee for Missing and POW Affairs ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Colin L. Powell
Sept. 11, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6336
The document is an internal FBI memorandum, regarding guidelines for FBI operations in Iraq, designed especially for the FBI's Iraq Task Force (ITF), located in Doha, Qatar. The memorandum also includes information on command and control, ...
June 15, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle