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. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 963
In October 2003, Specialist Cruz participated in the abuse of detainees in the Hard Site at Abu Ghraib. Spc. Cruz and others ordered three (3) detainees to strip naked. The detainees were handcuffed together with metal handcuffs "to mess with ...
Apr. 06, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Sexual, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced physical training
Sept. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2065
This is the Court-Martial of Specialist Armin J. Cruz of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade. SPC Cruz was charged with two (2) counts of maltreatment of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison and pleaded ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
General, Physical assault
Sept. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2066
This is the Court-Martial of Specialist Armin J. Cruz of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade. SPC Cruz was charged with two (2) counts of maltreatment of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison and pleaded ...
Feb. 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Armin J. Cruz
Physical assault, General
Sept. 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2254
The memo summarizes legal actions / reprimands taken against Army personnel involved in detainee abuse. Included in the memo is a list of about twenty soldiers from different locations, including Commanding General Janis L. Karpinski who was ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Sept. 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2258
The memo summarizes legal actions/reprimands taken against Army personnel involved in detainee abuse. Included in the memo is a list of about twenty soldiers from different locations, including Commanding General Janis L. Karpinski who was ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Sept. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4163
Email discusses using an informal approach with Matt Waxman in order to have him provide a briefing on U.S. detainee policy in Afghanistan to Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Molly C. Phee
Yvette M. Wong | Mark P. Lagon | Brigid R. Weiller
Matthew C. Waxman, Molly C. Phee, Joshua L. Dorosin, Monica J. Tillery, Yvette M. Wong, Mark P. Lagon, Brigid R. Weiller, Harry R. Melone, Lynn M. Sicade
Sept. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5433
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agents reported that they had no contact with ...
Sept. 13, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6114
The document is an email sent from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service to the FBI, regarding a status report on the Navy abuse investigation and the FBI's inquiry into FBI personnel contact with two redacted detainees.
Sept. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5978
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email, Interview (Statement), Other
Investigative Technology Division TPS/RSDU
Counterterrorism Division
Sept. 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5977
This email, by an FBI agent who had previously dealt with GTMO detainees, is a response to an Inspection Division request made on July 9, 2004 about possible observance of "aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques on GTMO ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email, Interview (Statement), Other
Investigative Technology Division TPS/RSDU
Counterterrorism Division