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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 04, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 4868
CID Report regarding alleged abuse suffered by unnamed detainee at unknown location while in the custody of U.S. Coalition forces in Baghdad.
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson, Larry North, Thom Jones
Physical assault, General, Dietary manipulation
Oct. 04, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5726
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of Muhammed Numan Nahar, a 71 year old Iraqi national who died at Camp Al Qaim on October 2, 2004. Mr. Nahar was captured near the Syrian Boarder and taken to Camp Al Qaim for detention and ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph
Muhammed Numan Nahar
Oct. 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6066
An email including two forwarded emails about the, "potential issues... regarding employee rights and liabilities," of a previous handling of an Army request for a roster of FBI personnel in Iraq from October to December 2003. One of the email ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Mark J. Mershon
Toni M. Fogle | Robert D. Grant | Charlene B. Thornton
Toni M. Fogle, Robert D. Grant, Charlene B. Thornton, Mark J. Mershon, Elaine N. Lammert, Marion E. Bowman
Oct. 02, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 103
CID Report of investigation into detainee’s alleged abuse while detained on a military base in Fallujah. Detainee alleged the Kurdish Military and Iraqi Linguish abused him. Specifically, the detainee alleged that the linguist hung him by his ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Physical assault, General
Oct. 02, 2004 | CSRT | ACLU-RDI 574

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant. He admitted that he was a driver for Usama Bin Laden and served as one of his armed bodyguards, though he claimed that such activity was ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
Other
Oct. 02, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4044
Emails discuss a rewrite of a statement on torture. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ashley S. Deeks
Edward R. Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin
Ashley S. Deeks, Shahnaz Gheibi, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Katherine M. Gorove, Heather Troutman , Sharon E. Ahmad, Rhonda H. Shore
Oct. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2691
Statement from a Military Intelligence officer about a detainee captured and interrogated at Camp Taji. He stated that the detainee he interviewed had no medical conditions that prevented him from being interviewed. The detainee admitted to ...
Oct. 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6100
An email including a chain of forwarded emails regarding verbal harassment an FBI agent had received from an anonymous caller for providing reporting to a colonel at FBIHQ regarding their knowledge in an IG investigation about UCMJ misconduct in ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle, Donald W. Thompson, Jr
Sept. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 504
This Army email is to update units who will handle detainees on their roles and responsibilities. It is required for all such deploying units. Discussion of guidance and schedules for pre-deployment training.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Sept. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1210
Informs recipients of a Detainee Operations Assessment/Assistance team that is being formed and will visit detainee related operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq.