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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Aug. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1838
The original email includes an attachment, with a different CID number in the title of the document. The reply email references allegations of detainee abuse inside the Stryker.
Aug. 07, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1850

An email chain following up on the CID's interview of a detainee.  Two CID reports are mentioned: 0093-04-C1D389-80674 and 0068-04-CID389-80663.

Aug. 09, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 645
DOD Memo re: Policy on Health Care Delivery to Enemy Persons at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Nov. 30, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Michael R. Lehnert
Aug. 09, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1544
CID report combining statements from the soldiers under investigation for abusing a detainee.
Aug. 09, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1549
CID Agent's Investigative Worksheet. Mostly redacted. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Aug. 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1926
Advises Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) personnel must immediately report allegations of abuse as soon as possible. CITF interrogators will ask detainee how he is feeling and how he has been treated and report any allegations of abuse up ...
Aug. 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2210

Email includes a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Detainee Operations Summary," which outlines different events surrounding detainee abuse cases, including Private First Class England's pre-trial investigation.

Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Lynndie Rana England, Paul J. Kern, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Joel F. Hefley , Barbara A. Mikulski, Tina Ballard, Keith B. Alexander, Gregory Meeks, Henry A. Waxman, Chris Geren, Michael D. Maples, Ron Lee Wyden, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Sabrina D. Harman, Ricardo Sanchez, Richard B. Cheney, Edward L. Richmond, Richard X. McGraw, Paul Wolfowitz, James R. Schlesinger
Nagem Sadoon Hatab , Naeem Sadun Hatab
Aug. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5455
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 reported observing no aggressive ...
Aug. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6183
An email by FBI Agent containing a positive response to observing aggressive treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The email notes that the agent saw, "at least two individuals dressed in BDU's standing and an inmate kneeling on the floor ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Physical assault, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Aug. 10, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2209
Emails include an executive summary that answers the question, how many criminal investigations were begun as a result of MG Fay's investigation? It reports that the CID initiated 186 criminal investigations as of August 6, 2004, while 24 ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
George R. Fay, Edward L. Richmond, Daniel V. Wright, Chris Geren, Leo A. Brooks, Jr.