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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Presentation discusses the task force's mission, identifies detainee operations issues and provides recommendations. Included in the slides is a map of the Abu Ghraib complex.
Email refers to six attachments, one document is included, it is a Department of Administrative Services/Vice Chief of Staff, US Army briefing outline. The outline discusses the briefing schedule.
Emails include a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary Briefing for the Director of the Army Staff," The summary discusses detainee abuses and deaths, highlighted among the deaths are the deaths of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Zaydun Ma'mun ...
Email includes a 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 ...
Emails discuss an upcoming briefing on detainee operations. The briefing considers concerns that the Commanding General has concerning the number of crew served weapons, a concern also discussed in the Taguba report.
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Email includes a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Initial Planning Construct." The slides include graphs and plans to improve the Army's detainee interrogation strategies, overall detainee operations and synchronize Army efforts internally.
Emails include a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary Briefing for the Director of the Army Staff," The summary discusses detainee abuse and deaths, highlighted among the deaths are the deaths of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Zaydun Ma'mun ...
Email refers to Army Regulation 190-8 (AR 190-8), which is a DOD directive that establishes policies for the treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees.
Email conversations between officials who are trying to come up with a name for the Army's detainee interrogation and operations plan.
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Email includes a daily update from the Office of the Provost Marshall General outlining the office's current and future activities as they relate to detainee operations.
Email includes a press release entitled "Abu Ghraib fight leaves 2 detainees dead, 5 wounded." It provides that a fight broke out among detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention facility on August 18, 2004 at about 5:45 AM, it was reported that ...
Email discusses "[r]apid [a]ction [r]evision" to Army Regulation 190-8 (AR 190-8), which is a DOD directive that establishes policies for the treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees.
Email includes an information paper entitled " Detainee Operations." The information paper discusses the role of the Coalition Forces Land Component Command Commissioner with respect to detainees, detainee operations and intelligence oversight.
Email includes a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Detainee Operations Summary," which outlines different events surrounding detainee abuse cases, including Private First Class England's pre-trial investigation.
Email refers to Army Regulation 190-8 (AR 190-8), which is a DOD directive that establishes policies for the treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees.
Emails include an executive summary that answers the question, how many criminal investigations were begun as a result of MG Fay's investigation? It reports that the CID initiated 186 criminal investigations as of August 6, 2004, while 24 ...
Emails discussing Department of Administrative Services weekly meetings with the Office of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General and the Criminal Investigation Command.
Email references seven attachments, one of the seven is an included situation report, which discusses an action plan to revise detention operations policies.
This information paper describes the incidents which resulted in the death of Iraqi Major General and detainee, Abed Hamed Mowhoush. Major General Mowhoush was detained and transported to a temporary detention facility, between November 10-24, ...
Email includes an executive summary that discusses the DOA's investigations into detainee abuse, including the different types of support they have received thus far.
Email includes notes from a May 7, 2004 Senate Armed Services Committee, which summarizes the incidents which led to the death of Iraqi Major General and detainee Abed Hamed Mowhoush.
Emails include a tasking summary and a CID detainee abuse summary/chart. The summary provides that the CID is investigating: 80 violations (in facilities), 38 detainee deaths, 38 assaults, 3 sexual assaults, and a theft; 43 violations (outside of ...
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes that pages, 16253-16255, were withheld for further review.