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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Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 457
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Operations before and after May 2004 60 Minutes Broadcast on Abu Ghraib. Army officer discusses training guidence in the wake of the 60 Minutes broadcase about the detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib ...
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 491
Email concerning Detainee Operations at Abu Ghraib prison before and after May 2004. This email contains information, chronology and talking points in response to a 60 Minutes report on detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 492
Emails concern a report conducted by Fmr. Def. Sec. James Schesinger on the training necessary for Military Police units when handling detainees.
Aug. 24, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 596
Report of fight between two detainees in the recreation yard which included punching, beard-grabbing, and kicking. One detainee claimed that the other was interrupting his prayers and verbally assaulting him by talking about his family. Actions ...
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 597
Second report of incident reported in ACLU-RDI 596. Recorded action taken in response to incident is the issuance of a 508.
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 942
Army Information Paper re: Detainee Operations and 60 Minutes profile of Detainee Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison. This paper is a chronology of events surrounding the detainee operations and reminder of Army values and the expectations senior command ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Non-legal Memo
David D. McKiernan
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 943
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Operations 24 August, 2004. No content. No attachment.
Aug. 24, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1338
CID report in to the death of a detainee in US custody. The detainee was brought to the hospital on December 3, 2003 with blunt trauma to the head with bleeding in the brain (determined by CT scan) and died January 4, 2004. This document contains ...
July 15, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Face slap or insult slap, General, Physical assault
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2024
US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) paper on how training has changed since release of Abu Ghraib pictures. Training guidance was changed to incorporate specific training of Geneva Conventions, Law of War, and reporting violations on Law of War.
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2053
This document is an email with an attachment concerning the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison after the 60 Minutes broadcast of the abuses that occurred at the prison. The email states "FORSCOM G3 training was asked to provide ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
David D. McKiernan