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 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 476
Guidance for Military Intelligence interrogation of detainees
June 07, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 552
String of emails in response to NCIS inquiry into an incident mentioned in a USMC report regarding all Iraqi detainee abuse and death cases. The NCIS official had not heard of one incident concerning detainee who is suspected of dying of head ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Threat, Assault/death
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 726
This sworn statement of a Civilian Interrogator assigned to Abu Ghraib prison from October 2003 to December 2003. Stated that he/she was aware of 'short chaining' detainees and removal of their clothing. Recalled there being a lot of detainee ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 07, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1036
Medical record of 35-year-old detainee who was allegedly physically abused for five days. Detainee claims to have been physically beaten and threatened with sodomy. At the time of the medical examination no bruises or scars were found. The ...
June 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1922
A detainee claims that during an interview conducted on 06/03/04, he was made to stand with his arms outstretched for three hours, then forced to kneel until he had a heart problem and collapsed. He stated he was taken to the hospital, but the ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Forced physical training
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2025
These emails concern the training of forces pre-deployment in the proper manner to handle detainees in the Blakans.
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2039
These emails concern an updating of the training manual for Military Intelligence (MI) units in their handling and interrogation of detainees. Some of the proposed additions to the training manual are: Communicate with Detainees (Muslim Cultural ...
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2588

Statement of Sergeant - Guard at the 2-3 FA Detainee Facility Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004. Contains questions and answers regarding the locations of interrogations and interrogation practices. Respondent states that detainees were removed from the ...

June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2589

Statement of Corporal - Guard at the 2-3 FA Detainee Facility Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004. Questions and Answers regarding the locations of interrogations and interrogation practices. Same set of questions as in ACLU-RDI 2588. In response to a ...

June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2590

Sworn Statement of Corporal - Guard at the 2-3 FA Detainee Facility Dec. 2003 - Jan. 2004. Questions and Answers regarding the locations of interrogations and interrogation practices.