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. 27, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6356
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an NCIS request to interview a Special Agent who was involved in the capture of a detainee who later died in custody.
June 15, 2011
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell
J. Stephen Tidwell, Valerie E. Caproni, Patrick W. Kelley, Frankie Battle
Sept. 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4786
Sworn statement by a Iraqi national who became a detainee at Abu Ghraib with member of his family. He claims that his brother was with the Saddam regime and when he went to visit his sister in Iraq he was taken in to custody as a detainee and ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of phobias, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Sept. 25, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 111

An investigation into allegations that Iraqi detainees were punched in the head and stomach in the back of a U.S. Army vehicle by numerous soldiers after being taken from their house in the middle of the night. The investigation was initiated ...

Jan. 31, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Physical assault, General
Sept. 25, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1818
CID Report on an investigation of: i) Aggravated Assault; ii) Willfully Discharging Firearm; iii) False Official Statement; iv) failure to Obey Order or Regulation. The charges stem from an incident where a Corporal supposedly willfully ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Assault/death, Other, Threat
Sept. 24, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 87
Investigation initiated after Military Police (MP) sent memo to CID re two detainees who related physical abuse in two separate instances: one by two unidentified Iraqi National Guard (ING) soldiers and two unknown U.S. soldiers, and the second ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Physical assault, General
Sept. 24, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 653
During a raid, jointly conducted by U.S. Marine Corps personnel with the 24th MEU (SOC) and Iraqi National Guards (INGs), a weapons cache was found. It was alleged that ING personnel slapped the owner of the home during an interrogation and shot ...
May 15, 2006
Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Sept. 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1933
Detainee admits he went to Afghanistan to fight for Jihad because he wanted to follow his dead brother's example. His brother was killed fighting in Chechnya. However, he claims not to be part or associated with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. He then ...
Sept. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3998
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 9/14/04
Sept. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4051
An email discussing "SR responses."
Dec. 30, 2004
Email, Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
Sarah E. Prosser
JoAnn J. Dolan, Sarah E. Prosser, Robert K. Harris, Sharon E. Ahmad, Patrick Philbin
Sept. 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 88
CID Report of investigation into detainee's allegation that he was Hooded, roughly handled and choked by a U.S. soldier after being captured in his home. The interrogation reports (Secret) did reveal any allegations of abuse, and the detainee ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling