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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 2246
Chart shows the ebb and flow of media coverage on detainee abuse since January 2004.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Lynndie Rana England, Charles H. Jacoby, David W. Barno, Richard P. Formica, James R. Schlesinger, Albert T. Church, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern, Antonio Taguba
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2243
Document summarizes and lists the recommendations made in the Jones-Fay Report. Included in the memo is a request for further investigation into CID case 0216-03-CID259-61211, an alleged sexual assault of a female detainee.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Use of phobias
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2244
PowerPoint presentation entitled "Draft Army Detainee Operations and Detainee-Interrogation Operations Integration Plan." The slides include graphs and plans to improve the Army's detainee interrogation strategies, overall detainee operations and ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2242
[Document completely redacted].
Feb. 15, 2006
Notes
Donald J. Ryder
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2241
Document discusses the various plans of the Department of the Army. It states that the Department will assist Army Central Command (ARCENT) in developing and coordinating an integrated, multi-disciplined detainee operations assessment/assistance ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2239
Document includes a detainee abuse Q&A that asks a series of questions about detainee abuse, detainee death and detainee abuse/death investigations.
Feb. 15, 2006
Other
Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Donald J. Ryder, Lynndie Rana England, Janis Leigh Karpinski
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2240
Document provides an analysis of Army Regulation 190-8, enemy prisoner of war, retained personnel, civilian internees and other detainees.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2237
The information paper discusses the historical evolution and issues pertaining to Military Police units that oversee detainee internment/resettlement operations, including high risk detainees and enemy prisoners of war.
Oct. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2238
Executive summary provides brief notes from an army senior detainee operations oversight council.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Donald J. Ryder
Sept. 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2235
Emails discuss revisions to Army Regulation 109-8. Emails state that the revisions will provide clarification for ongoing detainee operations and includes recent policies from the Office of the Secretary of Defense.