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
June 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2203
Email includes an executive summary that discusses the DOA's investigations into detainee abuse, including the different types of support they have received thus far.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Keith B. Alexander, George R. Fay, Donald J. Ryder, Geoffrey D. Miller, James R. Schlesinger, Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba, James A. Coggin, Chris Geren, Michael D. Maples, Edward Moore, Jr.
June 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2207
Email requesting approval of a June 25, 2004 daily update.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
June 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2208
Email includes an attachment of PowerPoint slides on "Army Detainee Operations: Recommended Alternate Course of Action" dated 08/04/04.
June 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2579
Sworn statement, possibly by a medical officer, that discusses medical screening of detainees. Contents are heavily redacted.
June 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2657
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN Number: 25224; NDRS: 156283. The Board was convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...
June 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2658
This Report of Decision by the Article 78 Board is a determination that the detainee is a security threat and orders continued interment. ISN Number: 25224. NDRS: 156282. The Board was convened by Convening Order No. 3, effective 15 August 2003, ...
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3092
Emails concerning a report of possible detainee abuse at Temporary Holding Facility (THF) 6-26 outstation. Notes that detainee arrived from Temporary Holding Facility with marks (burns) on him that seemed suspicious. When questioned about the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Gary M. Bald
Valerie E. Caproni | John S. Pistole | Bruce J. Gebhardt | Thomas J. Harrington
Valerie E. Caproni, Gary M. Bald, Bruce J. Gebhardt, John S. Pistole
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3095
FBI Emails between Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker and Others concerning reports of abuse of detainees at Guantanamo and the scheduled interview of a specific (un-named) detainee who is considered a High Value target. Many of the emails in the ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Chris Swecker | Joseph R. Lewis | Marion E. Bowman | John S. Pistole | Gary M. Bald | Eleni P. Kalisch | John F. Curran | Michael T. Roachford | David Szady
Robert A. Spencer, Bruce Swartz, Laura H. Parsky, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Robert S. Mueller, John D. Ashcroft, John F. Curran, Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3096
FBI email attaching report that provides details from an individual who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Iraq.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Robert S. Mueller, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3098
An unidentified individual informed the FBI Sacramento Field Office of numerous physical abuse incidents of Iraqi civilian detainees he/she observed in Iraq. The individual described that such abuses included strangulation, beatings, placement ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Robert S. Mueller
Bruce J. Gebhardt, Cassandra M. Chandler, John S. Pistole, Grant Ashley, Gary M. Bald, Arthur M. Cummings, II
Physical assault, General, Other