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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Sept. 09, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 229
Report on detention operations function in Iraq. The report recommends consolidating the interrogation mission at one Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center under CJTF-7 command and states that "it is essential that the guard force be actively ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Oversight Report
Geoffrey D. Miller
Oct. 01, 1997 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 230
Army Regulation Army Regulation 190-8 establishing policies for the treatment and administrative procedures for Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees.
Aug. 01, 2001 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 231
Army Field Manual FM 3-19.40: Military Police Internment/Resettlement Operations. Military Handbook for Police Internment and Resettlement Operations. Field Manual depicts the doctrinal foundation, principles, and processes that Military Police ...
May 08, 1987 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 232
Field Manual FM 34-52 sets forth the basic principles of interrogation doctrine and establishes procedures and techniques applicable to Army intelligence interrogations.
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 233
The Fourth Geneva Convention sets forth conduct in time of war.
Jan. 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 234
Cover Page for CID Report. No additional pages attached.
Oct. 19, 2004
Notes
Antonio Taguba
Jan. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 235
Cover Page for CID Report. No additional pages attached.
Oct. 19, 2004
Notes
Antonio Taguba
Jan. 29, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 236

800th MP Roster for January 29, 2004; Names of Military Police personnel; All names are redacted.

Oct. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 237
Interrogation Rules of Engagement for the 205th MI Brigade, Iraq. Sets forth techniques for use on detainees, of which, including isolation for more than 30 days and the presence of military working dogs, requires the Commanding General's ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Other
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
Feb. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 238
FRAGO 176 deployment orders for 1st Armored Division; 89th Military Police Brigade; 16th Military Police Brigade and the 89th Military Police Brigade February 13, 2004.