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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DOA | ACLU-RDI 953
Army Collection Point-Holding Area Checklist
DOA | ACLU-RDI 954
This memo gives detailed description of Enemy Prisoners of War and Detainee categories, from Category A (High Level) to Category D (no information of intelligence value).
DOA | ACLU-RDI 955
Army Detainee Processing Checklist. Lists Packet Requirements, along with "New Guidance from Ironhorse" and instructions to "Think of detainee's packet like it is a court case?"
DOA | ACLU-RDI 959
Army Memo on Processing Detainees
DOA | ACLU-RDI 960
Army Detainee Packet Checklist
DOA | ACLU-RDI 965
Specialist Sivits was arraigned at a special court martial in May 2004 for his role in abuses at Abu Ghraib prison on 11/8/03. He pled guilty to the charges of maltreating and conspiracy to maltreat detainees for his role in an incident of abuse ...
Apr. 06, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Jeremy C. Sivits
DOA | ACLU-RDI 966
Army Enemy Prisoner of War and Detainee Guide. Includes Legal Obligations to EPW and list of definitions
DOA | ACLU-RDI 972
Deleted Page Information Sheet Bates Pages 6387 - 6546 Have Been Removed by AR 15-6 Investigations — 4th Infantry Division.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 979
Deleted Page Information Sheet
| ACLU-RDI 1024
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet