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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July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5231
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent did not report observing the use of any ...
July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5232
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent did not report observing the use of any ...
July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5235
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent did not report observing any "physically ...
July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5236
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent reports witnessing detainees being ...
July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5223
Document responds to request for information regarding treatment of detainees at GTMO (Counterterrorism Division, Guantanamo, Inspection Special Inquiry, Case ID # 297-HQ-A1327669-A); the responding agent did not report observing any aggressive ...
July 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5132
This Department of the Army Inspector General report is the result of the Acting Secretary of the Army's February 10, 2004 directive to conduct an assessment of the Army's detainee and interrogation operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The aim ...
Oversight Report
EIT
July 21, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5229
This document is a response to an email sent to individuals who conducted an assignment at Guantanamo Bay requesting information concerning the treatment of detainees. The document indicates that a special agent from Newark was at Guantanamo ...
July 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 52
An investigation into the shooting death of two detainees, including Naif Sliman Amir, during a riot at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. The investigation concluded that the shooting of both detainees was justifiable and that the soldiers involved had ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Naif Sliman Amir
Physical assault, General
July 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 64
Report of investigation into the maltreatment of a prisoner at Ad Diwaniyah Military Correction Facility, Iraq. Soldier was shown a picture of a naked female Iraqi prisoner on the computer while in Iraq. Investigation found insufficient ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Nelson van Eck, Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones, Robert De Ocampo
Nudity
July 22, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 135
CID investigation into the manner of death of detainee Fathel Ibrahim Mahmood at the Baghdad, Central Confinement Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Mr. Mahmood experienced chest pains and was discovered unresponsive when medical personnel arrived at ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
Fathel Ibrahim Mahmood
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