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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Aug. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 442
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 63 -386-30-MTP: Mission Training Plan supply Company, Aviation Support Battalion, Digitized Division
Sept. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 443
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 5-437-10-MTP: Engineer Platoon, Engineer Company, Engineer Combat Battalion, Corps
Nov. 12, 1996 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 444
Dvision Medical Operations Center Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.
Aug. 24, 2001 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 445
Army Field Manual No. 4-02.4: FM 4-02.4 (FM 8-10-4) Medical Platoon Leaders' Handbook; Tactics, Techinques, And Procedures
Oct. 15, 1990 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 446
Army Field Manual No. 11-32: FM 11-32 Combat Net Radio Operations.
May 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4865
Army documents, handwritten notes in Arabic and U.S. Army claim forms relating to claim of wrongful shooting and detention of an Iraqi citizen. This also contains a note to the guards at Abu Ghraib to release a wrongfully detained Iraqi citizen ...
CID | ACLU-RDI 6

USACIDC Documents Ready for Release to the ACLU: Specifies pages withheld from 24 CID documents (Gibbons stamped CID000003-001508), including photographs of US soldiers and "deceased foreign nationals" that are not in the public ...

Sept. 25, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 111

An investigation into allegations that Iraqi detainees were punched in the head and stomach in the back of a U.S. Army vehicle by numerous soldiers after being taken from their house in the middle of the night. The investigation was initiated ...

Jan. 31, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Physical assault, General
Oct. 25, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 112

Investigation into allegations by senior Psyops officers in Afghanistan who witnessed indiscriminate assaults in May 2004 by Special Forces on villagers during raids in Gurjay and Surkhagen. Abuses included hitting and kicking villagers in ...

Jan. 31, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Dec. 05, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 113

An investigation finding probable cause to believe that two U.S. soldiers committed the offense of assault when they punched and kicked a local detainee whom they picked up at a roadblock and transported to an Iraqi prison. A sergeant took ...

Jan. 31, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Physical assault, General, Other