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 16, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1947
A detainee at Guantanamo made an allegation of abuse during his detainment in a U.S. Controlled detention facility in Afghanistan. This memo is a referral of that allegation.
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2180
Emails reference an attached document entitled June 16 daily update. [Document is not included].
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2181
Emails reference an executive summary. [Summary is not attached/included].
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2182
Email refers to an attachment entitled "Detainee Abuse Tasking PMG COAs RFI." [Document was not included].
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2183
Email has five attachments, including a document entitled "Corrections vs. Detention discipline." [Documents are not included].
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2186
Email from DOD to DOD regarding a point of contact.
June 16, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 2458
Statement of a soldier to Defense Intelligence Agency Inspector General, at Arlington VA, on 06/10/2004 about alleged violations of the Geneva Conventions. Facts of the incident are redacted. Person stated that the "episode did not appear to be ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
June 16, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2771

Document fully redacted. Email subject: Crim Report for 6/17/2004.

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Robert Hur
Ronnie Edelman | Monica Gooding | Stuart Levey | David E. Nahmias | Patrick Philbin | John Richter | Barry Sabin | Janet Potter | Robert McCallum | Bryan Sierra | Christopher A. Wray | Patrick Rowan | Daniel B. Levin | James B. Comey
Robert Hur, Mark Corallo, Ronnie Edelman, Monica Gooding, Stuart Levey, David E. Nahmias, Patrick Philbin, John Richter, Barry Sabin, Janet Potter, Robert McCallum, Bryan Sierra, Christopher A. Wray, Patrick Rowan, James B. Comey, Jeffrey Taylor, Chuck Rosenberg, Daniel B. Levin, Adam Isles, Laura H. Parsky, Rena Comisac, Daniel Klein
June 16, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3833
Press release from the ICRC discussing the Geneva Convention's policy on a state's mistreatment of detainees, prisoners of war and internees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Frank E. Schmelzer
June 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4036
Email indicates that a document regarding a "torture notional statement" is attached. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald | James H. Thessin | Samuel M. Witten | Edward R. Cummings
Shahnaz Gheibi, Robert K. Harris, JoAnn J. Dolan, Samuel M. Witten, Edward R. Cummings, Sharon E. Ahmad