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
July 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 964
First Lieutenant Glenn A. Niles, Jr. assaulted three (3) detainees at Al Taji Police Station, Baghdad on July 30, 2003. He admitted to striking two (2) detainees in the stomach with a closed fist and kicking the third in the shoulder. A petition ...
Apr. 06, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Glenn A. Niles, Jr.
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Threat, Assault/death
July 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1565
Email described that in December, 2003, a US soldier dropped an unconscious Iraqi male off to a medical facility; medical examinations concluded that the Iraqi male died from blunt force trauma to the head. The email concluded that an army ...
Sept. 20, 2005
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Physical assault, General
July 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2541
Sworn statement by a senior interrogator located at Radwaniya Palace Complex (RPC) from May to September 2003. Discusses interrogation procedures at a Temporary Holding Facility, and states, "Once detainees arrive, they are searched, screened for ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Threat, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2867
The document summarizes FBI work in Afghanistan. FBI duties include: "interview/interrogation [redacted] fingerprinting and photographing and DNA collection), training of DOD personnel in proper collection techniques, participation in [redacted] ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Robert S. Mueller
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3243
Contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Kathleen E. Kennedy
Kathleen E. Kennedy
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3257
Email states author is complying with a request by Steven McCraw to coordinated interviews of FBI personnel, but will not open internal investigation unless they receive information involving misconduct. Author states he/she has contacted at ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw
Steven C. McCraw
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3348
Email is forwarding information re: Army CID Request for Interview of FBI personnel. The author states that "We will not open an Internal Investigation matter case on them unless we receive some evidence that they [FBI personnel] were involved in ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Steven C. McCraw | Toni M. Fogle
Steven C. McCraw, Toni M. Fogle
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3513
Emails discuss recommended changes J. Stephen Tidwell has made to Valerie E. Caproni's document. Tidwell also mentions that he has concerns over GTMO issues in general.
Feb. 06, 2006
Email
J. Stephen Tidwell
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni, J. Stephen Tidwell, Marion E. Bowman, Janice K. Fedarcyk
July 01, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6128
This email includes a chain of forwarded emails expressing an Army CID's desire to interview FBI special agents who are witnesses in an investigation surrounding allegations of prisoner abuse. The prisoner alleges to have been tortured in "an act ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Use of water, Physical assault, Stress positions, Other
June 30, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 55

An investigation into the death of Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi (ISN 159756). On 11 May 2004 he reportedly abruptly collapsed and became unconscious. Resuscitation was initiated and continued during: transport to the facility hospital ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi