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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Army Presentation summarizing the current situation in Al Qaim Husaybah, Iraq in November 2003. The presentation includes a HUMINT summary and threat assessment describing a planned attack on coalition forces by an unnamed anti-coalition group, ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Stress positions
Military deployment orders dated November 19, 2003. Fragmentary Order assigning responsibility for Abu Ghraib to the Commander of the 205th MI Brigade, effective immediately.
This is the verbatim record of the trial of USMC Lance Corporal Walter H. Laak who was tried for abusing detainees. He pleaded to all charges. His punishment was confinement for 120 days; Reduction to pay grade E-1; and discharge from the Marine ...
June 15, 2006
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Transcript)
Walter H. Laak
Physical assault
Record of capture documents, including a detainee intake sheet, which has a photo [redacted] of a detainee, along with his DOB and the reason for his detention. The detainee was about twenty five years old at the time he was captured, he was ...
Army PowerPoint Presentation re: Slides of Instructions for Patrols of Anti-coalition Mosques
CIA copy of London Times article describing an invasion of U.S. troops into three Iraqi towns close to the Syrian border in an effort to flush out foreign Mujahidin fighters.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
David Teeples, Joe Busch
A detainee assaulted and spit at another detainee while they were in the shower and recreation yard. Actions taken in response were segregation and loss of comfort items (CI).
FBI list of interviewees and dates of interviews at Abu Ghraib Prison from Oct. 2, 2003 through Nov. 22, 2003.
Statement of a Captain, with Alpha Company, 588th Engineer Battalion, discussing the capture of an Iraqi target and his two sons. The target was suspected of among other offenses, selling stolen weapons. The Captain stated that after their ...
This document is a list of evidence gathered and the military forms used. The primary form cited is the DA Form 2823. The list also includes the Unit(s) involved in the investigation and Item in evidence.