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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Feb. 19, 2008 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5795
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Sadik Abdullah Saoud, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by Battalion Landing Team 2/4 (2/4 "G" Co.), out of Expedition Observation Post (EOP) Playboy Mansion, Barwana, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdullah Sadiq Saoud
Physical assault, General
Feb. 19, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5705
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Lo'y Lafta Hashim, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq, It is reported that Mr. Hashim was seen by other detainees experiencing a medical emergency, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Lo'y Lafta Hashim
Feb. 19, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6649
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the fourteenth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of the modification is to increase funding from $65,403,684 to ...
Feb. 15, 2008 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6791
Index of DOJ advice on interrogations, including OLC memos, letters, testimony.
Aug. 31, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Alberto Gonzalez, John A. Rizzo, Jay Bybee, John C. Yoo, William "Jim" Haynes, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, John McLaughlin, John Ashcroft, Daniel B. Levin, James B. Comey, William E. Moschella, Steven Bradbury, John B. Bellinger, III, Ron Lee Wyden, Brian A. Benczkowski
Feb. 14, 2008 | ACLU-RDI 6586
This transcript is of a hearing held before the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to examine the OLC's involvement in the legal review of Administration policies regarding detention and ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Judicial (Transcript)
Jerrold Nadler, Trent Franks, Steven G. Bradbury
SERE, Use of water, Waterboarding, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Threat, Assault/death, Temperature, Environmental manipulation
Feb. 12, 2008 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5684
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Salim Abo Alla Habib Al-Sarray, a detainee at the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq. On November 11, 2007 Mr. Habib Al-Sarray was reported to the 31st Combat Support ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Salim Abo Alla Habib Al-Sarray
Feb. 10, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5539
This is a CID investigation n to the death of Fayis Halim Kazim, a detainee being held at the Temporary Holding Facility (THF) Radwaniyah Palace Complex, Iraq, on July 28, 2007. Mr. Kazim was in his assigned cell, Cell #9, waiting to be moved to ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Fayis Halim Kazim
Feb. 09, 2008 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5567
This is a CID investigation in to the actions of a Sergeant with "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment (2/12), Combat Outpost (COP) Chosen, Iraq. The Sergeant (SGT) was initially suspected, accused and eventually confessed to ...
Feb. 03, 2008 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5776
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, Iraqi detainee who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Jan. 25, 2008 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5797
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Sadik Abdullah Saoud, and Iraqi civilian who died while being placed in to custody by Battalion Landing Team 2/4 (2/4 "G" Co.), out of Expedition Observation Post (EOP) Playboy Mansion, Barwana, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Abdullah Sadiq Saoud
Physical assault, General