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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Nov. 17, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5658
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Ezaldin Awand Hazzaa Al Doulaimee, an Iraqi who was shot in a firefight with US Army personnel on September 30, 2006. It is reported that Mr. Al Doulaimee was shot in the back, but stabilized, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ezaldin Awand Hazzaa Al Doulaimee
Physical assault
Nov. 08, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6490
This is a heavily redacted message from John Rizzo to Michael Hayden, Michael Morell, and Stephen Kappes, describing an ICRC meeting with detainees and how the detainees' allegations to the ICRC do not "sound far removed from the reality."
June 13, 2016
Email
John A. Rizzo
Michael Hayden, Stephen Kappes, John A. Rizzo, Michael Morell
Nov. 03, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 4511
Redacted draft of CIA report outlining general concepts and proposals.
Nov. 03, 2006 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4513
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Nov. 01, 2006 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5866
This is a CID investigation into the death of an unknown Iraqi male shot multiple times in the chest and legs while engaged in a gun battle with Iraqi Security Forces near Mahmudiyah, Iraq. The man was treated at the scene of the battle by US ...
Nov. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6783
This November 2006 cable lists the personnel involved with the detainee program who have acknowledged reading and understanding the "Guidelines on Confinement Conditions for CIA Detainees". The list includes James Mitchell.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
James Mitchell
Nov. 01, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 6643
This Amendment of Solicitation/Modification of Contract is the eighth modification to the March 2005 contract between Mitchell, Jessen & Associates and the government. The purpose of this modification is to decrease funding from $43,826,609 to ...
Oct. 26, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5718
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5), Fallujah, Iraq on September 20, 2005. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Letter, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Physical assault
Oct. 25, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5748
This is an NCIS investigation into the death of Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a beating he received by Iraqi Police (IP) following his arrest and detention at the Echo Company Forward Operating Base (FOB) Haditha, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Email, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General
Oct. 20, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5633
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Ganim Monhnd Mohamed-Ali, a detainee who died in US custody. It is reported that Mr. Mohamed-Ali was treated for an inner ear infection while in custody, but the infection worsened. The Report ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy)
Ganim Monhnd Mohamed-Ali