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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Dec. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6028
The document is a heavily redacted daily situation report from the Iraqi Task Force, detailing personnel numbers and status as well as a variety of figures related to detainees during the reporting period - including captures, transfers, and ...
Dec. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6418
This document is a heavily redacted email exchange between Valerie Caproni and another official with the subject line "battlefield advice."
Dec. 07, 2010
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Dec. 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2327
DOD memo regarding a detainee's allegations of torture at Guantanamo between August and October 2003. The detainee turned himself over to Mauritanian authorities in November 2001 and was given to the United States in July 2002. The detainee ...
June 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault
Dec. 09, 2004 | CSRT | ACLU-RDI 578

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he supported Al Qaida forces against the coalition. Detainee is a Syrian national who trained in Afghanistan for military combat ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Muhammad Abd al Nasir Muhammad Khantumani, Abd al Nasir Mohammed Abd al Qadir Khantumani
Other
Dec. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3197
Attaches "an outline of the coervive techniques in the military's interviewing toolkit. I will also send our Interview Plan for Detainee [redacted]. When I return to D.C. I will bring a copy of the military's interview Plan?. You won't believe it!"
Dec. 08, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2698
Statement of a soldier who is of a combat medic assigned to 2/3/ FA. The soldier states that he did not see "detainees suffering from injuries due to being physically abused. I vaguely remember a family of two sisters and some brothers detained ...
Dec. 06, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1545
Agent's Investigation Report details the interviews that took place during the investigation. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
Dec. 06, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5728
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of Muhammed Numan Nahar, a 71 year old Iraqi national who died at Camp Al Qaim on October 2, 2004. Mr. Nahar was captured near the Syrian Boarder and taken to Camp Al Qaim for detention and ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Muhammed Numan Nahar
Dec. 05, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 113

An investigation finding probable cause to believe that two U.S. soldiers committed the offense of assault when they punched and kicked a local detainee whom they picked up at a roadblock and transported to an Iraqi prison. A sergeant took ...

Jan. 31, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Physical assault, General, Other
Dec. 04, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6236
An email regarding a "DHS Mou." The email also mentions a memo "covering detainees we don't want them to arrest."
Oct. 30, 2009
Email
Julie F. Thomas
Julie F. Thomas