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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June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3844
Email response redacted. Original email includes a press release from the ICRC on the topic of Iraq and what the Geneva Convention says about the future of persons deprived of their freedom.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steven A. Solomon
Ed Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Piper A. Campbell | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Joel Danies | Kevin Edward Moley | Magda S. Siekert | Joseph P. Cassidy | Thomas H. Casey | Katherine L. Starr | Michael T. Peay | Lynn L. Cassel
Steven A. Solomon, Edward R. Cummings, Frank E. Schmelzer , Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Magda S. Siekert, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Joel D. Danies, Joseph P. Cassidy, Thomas H. Casey, Katherine L. Starr, Michael T. Peay, Lynn L. Cassel, Kevin Edward Moley, Melissa R. Davis, David Shark, Joseph S. McGinnis, Richard L. Greene, John D. Hamill
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4464
This State Department memo is a partial of a larger memo entitled "Interrogations and Army Regulations". and states "The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War provides that "no physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4674
State Department cover sheet for delivery of documents re: PCC Meeting on Detainees
June 08, 2005
Other
John Bellinger
JoAnn J. Dolan | Pierre-Richard Prosper | Anthony Fortune
John B. Bellinger, III, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, Anthony Fortune, Jay Alan Liotta, Bruce Swartz, Diane E. Beaver, Eliana Davidson, Patrick Rowan
June 17, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6451
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
June 17, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6452
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan. It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions throughout ...
June 16, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 534
Email between Marines concerning a detainee case spreadsheet and the investigations underway. The attachment is not viewable.
June 16, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 535
This US Marine Corp spreadsheet lists twenty (20) cases of alleged detainee abuse. The table of cases includes ten (10) substantiated incidents and ten (10) unsubstantiated incidents. The incidents include: beating detainees with fists; holding ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Chart/List
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity
June 16, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 674
A Military Intelligence Officer was interviewed at Camp Victory by Major General Fay in regards to interrogation plans in place at Abu Ghraib Prison in 2003. The deponent discussed his arrival at Abu Ghraib and the duties he performed while ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript, Statement)
George R. Fay
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 681
Sworn statement, interviewee stated, I was asked to observe an interrogation which possibly fell on the border line [of inappropriate techniques]. Also, stated that he/she "heard of an unauthorized interrogation by three interrogators in SEP 03. ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 16, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1050
During the medical screening for in-processing at Abu Ghraib Prison a 48 year-old Iraqi male detainee reported being punched in the stomach by U.S. Forces while being transported by helicopter to the detention facility. The detainee does not have ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, Stomach/abdominal slap