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. 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2220
Email conversations between officials who are trying to come up with a name for the Army's detainee interrogation and operations plan. [Contents redacted].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2221
Email includes an outline from the Office of the Provost Marshall General, which lists their current and future activities.
Aug. 19, 2004 | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 2320

Sargent Travis was accused of cruelty; maltreatment; attempted assault by battery; conspiracy to maltreat; and dereliction of duty. Specifically, he conspired, witnessed and encouraged electrocution of a detainee by PFC Andrew J Sting, then ...

June 15, 2006
Photograph, UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Matthew K. Travis
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3996
Letter from Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador, to Professor Bassiouni responding to a request from Prof. Bassiouni to Amb. Danforth relating to travel to Afghanistan.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Anne Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson, John Claggett Danforth
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4145
Email from Beverly Holman to JoAnn Dolan re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Letters on Detainees - (Confidential) 2004 19914-ICRC Letters on Detainees- Due in S/ES by 3:00 pm, 8/25. This email forwards an email with ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Beverly S. Holman
JoAnn J. Dolan
Beverly S. Holman, JoAnn J. Dolan, Monica J. Tillery, Saadia Sarkis
Aug. 19, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5428
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent, who conducted interviews with detainees, ...
Aug. 19, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6148
An email to an FBI official stating "Greetings from Mexico City" with a file attachment.
Aug. 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1030
This email discusses the need for adequate number of doctors to provide preventative medicine to detainees. The IG report found that doctors were not resources adequately and in some cases lacked adequate training or guidance to perform the ...
Aug. 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1083
Medical records of Iraqi male detainees who were injured during a prison riot in Abu Ghraib prison. A group of prisoners became unruly and guards used lethal force to subdue the crowd. The circumstances surrounding the incident were ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, Other
Aug. 18, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1816
This CID report is very detailed. Three (3) Iraqi nationals reported they were robbed by U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint on Main Supply Route (MSR) Tampa, Iraq. Investigation established probable cause to believe the soldiers committed the offense ...