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.
Fax of letter from a constituent to Senator Cornyn stating: "I just read a story about 3 CIA personnel who may have killed three prisoners. The Agency submitted their reports to the Justice Dept. Interrogations on non-Americans by the ...
An exchange of letters between Senator Charles Grassley and Assistant Attorney General William E. Moschella regarding the OLC's August 2002 memo defining torture. Senator Grassley initiated the exchange by forwarding to AAG Moschella for response ...
CIA copy of excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," recounting a series of murders carried out for the purpose of selling corpses as cadavers.
CIA background materials on Abu Ghraib, likely for presentation to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Table of contents includes "NE Background Summary," "DDO Talking Points and ...
This article details "the deaths of at least 10 prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan" and indicates that U.S. officials considered "a possible criminal investigation of a [CIA] officer in the death of one prisoner." It also describes Congressional ...
Press release from the White House affirming the Bush administration's belief in the Geneva Convention, but noting that Taliban detainees are not entitled to POW status and that members of al-Qaeda are not covered by the Convention.
This article describes criminal investigations into detainee deaths and assaults in Iraq and Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. It documents Condoleeza Rice's public "apolog[y] to the Arab world," and Donald ...
This article describes the CIA Inspector General's investigation into the death of three prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. The article names two of the three of the prisoners, Mandadel Al-Jamadi and Abid Hamid Mowhoush.
This Department of the Army Inspector General report is the result of the Acting Secretary of the Army's February 10, 2004 directive to conduct an assessment of the Army's detainee and interrogation operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The aim ...
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of an unnamed Iraqi male following a firefight. The Report states that on March 20, 2005, in the vicinity of Salman Pak, Baghdad, Iraq, a man who was engaged with coalition forces ...
This is a Memo from John Helgerson, Inspector General (IG) to Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The Memo states that the contents is a Final Report.
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Congressman Peter Hoekstra, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad ...
This CID investigation in to the alleged unlawful shooting death of five (5) Iraqis during a raid on a house near Samara, Iraq. It is reported that as soldiers raided a house looking for certain specific insurgents when they shot the Iraqi ...
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Senator Pat Roberts, the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad Mahawish ...
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad ...
This is a CIA Routing Slip. The confirm and document the fact that specific individuals within Congress and the Intelligence community have received the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi.
This memo concerns the additional comments by Assistant United States Attorney James P. Gillis, Easter District of Virgina, re: Death of Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi.
This email contains a letter from Marilyn A. Dorn, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), General Counsel's Office (GC), concerning four (4) legal cases: 1) United States v. CW3 Welshofer; 2) United States v. CW2 Williams; 3) United States v. SPC ...
This is a Memo from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General (IG) to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). The memo is intended to inform the DCIs that the OIG has completed an investigation regarding the death of Iraqi detainee Abid Hamad ...
A letter from John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, to Congresswoman Jane Harman, the ranking Democratic member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter indicates that a copy of the OIG report concerning the death ...
This is a cover letter from Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to Alex Abdo, of the American Civil Liberties Union, concerning FOIA document production re: ACLU v. CIA 10 Civ. 7092 (AKH).
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Mana Shaman Turki Alutaybi, a.k.a. Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, a 21 year old Saudi male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Al Tabi, along with Ali Abdullah Ahmed and ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Yasser Talal al Zahrani, a 21 year old Saudi male being held at Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, Cuba. Mr. Al Zahrani along with Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
The detainee being interviewed states that that detainee in Cell #39 on his Block is the leader of the Arab detainees and he is organizing them to resist efforts to be interrogated. He states that this detainee in Cell #39 speaks English and "He ...
This chart contains information on suicide attempts made by Guantanamo Bay detainees as of June 10, 2006. The Detainee No. and Date of Event columns are redacted. The Method of Attempt, Number of Attempts, and Prognosis of each attempt are also ...
Email from Russ K. LaMotte, emailed a transcript of an April 20, 2004 Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Hearing on Iraq and Afghanistan to other DOS officials. The hearing transcript is included; the theme is broad, it discusses the ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
The document is a letter from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General to the ACLU's National Security Project, regarding the ACLU's April 22nd, 2008 FOIA request. The letter is a cover letter for summaries of interviews conducted ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with detainee Moazzem Begg, regarding his general knowledge of incarceration in Egypt, his allegations of being threatened by two FBI agents, and his experiences being detained and ...