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.

Search Result (6709)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
| ACLU-RDI 1190
Notice Page re: Bates Numbering Error from Page 9415 - 9567. No other pages; no other content.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1198
Army memo providing talking points emphasize Abu Ghraib abuse, stressing the abuse was an aberration that will be fixed.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1209
Army talking points on the abuse allegations at Abu Ghraib prison. Provides basic information about the Abu Ghraib investigation for speaking with the press.
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Donald J. Ryder
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1214
Instructions for protecting detainees and soldiers from lice, ticks, etc.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1220
Basic information about detention procedures in Iraq. Includes a list of detention centers, counts of detainees currently held, and manuals that proscribe detainee treatment.
| ACLU-RDI 1221
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1225
PowerPoint presentation discusses methods for dealing with stress while working as a staff member in a detainee camp.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1242
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form; Form an official completes when a person is apprehended.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1243
Document is a table of contents and a training schedule.
| ACLU-RDI 1244