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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DOA | ACLU-RDI 2252
This report provides detailed information surrounding an incident during a riot at the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility, June 12, 2004, which resulted in the shooting death of a detainee and injuries to seven (7) others. The report provides a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Physical assault, General
June 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2253
Army memo discusses an AR 15-6 investigation into an attempted escape and a riot that resulted in the shooting death of one detainee and injuries to seven others. Memo also includes a list of those wounded during the incident.
Sept. 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2254
The memo summarizes legal actions / reprimands taken against Army personnel involved in detainee abuse. Included in the memo is a list of about twenty soldiers from different locations, including Commanding General Janis L. Karpinski who was ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Janis Leigh Karpinski
| ACLU-RDI 2255
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes that it withheld bates pages 23329-23331 pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
Aug. 02, 2004 | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 2256
Email includes an executive summary entitled "Adverse Action taken against MP leaders identified in MG Taguba's Report of Investigation." The summary discusses Major General Antonio Taguba's report, which recommended a series of disciplinary and ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba, James R. Helmly, David D. McKiernan, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez
Aug. 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2257
Email includes an executive summary entitled "Adverse Action taken against MP leaders identified in MG Taguba's Report of Investigation." The summary discusses Major General Antonio Taguba's report, which recommended a series of disciplinary and ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski, David D. McKiernan
Sept. 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2258
The memo summarizes legal actions/reprimands taken against Army personnel involved in detainee abuse. Included in the memo is a list of about twenty soldiers from different locations, including Commanding General Janis L. Karpinski who was ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Sept. 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2259
The executive summary discusses the Fay/Jones Report, which identified 29 soldiers implicated in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib; eleven of those identified were reserve soldiers. The memo refers to a matrix that includes the relevant ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Oversight Report
George R. Fay, Anthony R. Jones
June 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2260
The information paper provides information to assist commanders regarding the reporting of MI personnel implicated in detainee abuse cases.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Steven J. Morello
Sept. 02, 2006 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2261
Document is an excerpt from AR 27-10-Chapter 21, it "prescribes policies and procedures for implementing title VIII, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987."