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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Jan. 13, 2004 | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1913
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). The detainee stated that he was in Afghanistan to study the Koran. ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Oct. 21, 2003 | USAF | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1910
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The detainee stated ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Sept. 30, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1907
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Detainee ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1908
DOD Memo on detainee interrogation guidelines advises that all personnel are to treat detainees humanely. Physical torture, corporal punishment and mental torture are not acceptable interrogation tactics; neither is withholding basic human needs; ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Brittain P. Mallow
Brittain P. Mallow
Oct. 09, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 1909
Interview of detainee at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Detainee stated that he is a salesman of clocks and belts who regularly travels around Afghanistan and Pakistan; he has no association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda; and is innocent of any ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Sept. 03, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1905
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay was conducted by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
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
Aug. 30, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1903
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Air Force office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Sept. 10, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1904
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay was conducted by the United States Army Criminal ...
Aug. 18, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1901
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay was conducted by the Air Force office of Special ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Other Humiliation, Religious