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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
| ACLU-RDI 1531
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1535
Deleted Page Information Sheet - Bates pages 14707 - 14752 withheld pending review. IDA: Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1536
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1561
Army Specialist describes being instructed to lie about the drowning at the Samarra Bridge in Samarra Iraq: "We agreed to say that we detained the two Iraqis, released them, last seeing them standing on the side of the road;" also notes that his ...
Sept. 20, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement)
General, Physical assault
| ACLU-RDI 1562
Contents Redacted Under FOIA Exemption
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1568
An Army questionnaire, including twenty-three questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. In response to a question asking ...
| ACLU-RDI 1592
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1596
An Army questionnaire, including nineteen questions, given to a Lieutenant Colonel regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1598
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-three questions, given to a soldier regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1599
An Army questionnaire containing thirty-seven questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the ...