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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Apr. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2679
This detainee Screening Report is a standard form letter for processing detainees taken in to custody. The detainee associated with this Screening Report is redacted, but the report details a female detainee and briefly lists questions asked of ...
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2680
This detainee Screening Report is a standard form letter for processing detainees taken in to custody. The detainee associated with this Screening Report is redacted, but the report details a female detaineeand lists questions asked of the ...
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3594
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: Ambassador Prosper Discusses Detainee Issues with International Committee for the Red Cross President Kellenberger". There is no other discernible information or context.
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Richard A. Boucher
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3714
This cable is from Stated Department Headquarters to the U.S. Mission in Geneva to give guidance to U.S. Amb. Jeffrey DeLaurentis in responding to U.N. Special Rapporteur Asma Jahanglr concerning a letter Mr. Jahanglr wrote to the U.S. about the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4042
Statement of Andre Surena to the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, March 31-April 3, 2004. Statement discusses the status/classification of detainees at Guantanamo, whether the detainees should be classified as POWs, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview (Statement)
Andre Surena
Andre M. Surena, Sharon E. Ahmad
Apr. 01, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6780
This cable includes the contents of Abu Zubaydah's April 2004 mental status exam and December 2003 psychological assesment conducted by Mitchell and Jessen.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable, Medical
Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell
Abu Zubaydah
Apr. 02, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 180
This report concerns an Iraqi police officer, Muhammed Saddam, and by a Kuwaiti interpreter working with Coalition Forces reportedly used his position to target wealthy Iraqis for raids unless they paid him to be left alone. This report focuses ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Cable
Physical assault, Family/others, Threat
Apr. 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 762
Interviewee arrived to AG as an interrogator. Recalled an incident with a detainee who "made physical contact" with the interrogator's analyst, as a result the detainee was placed against the wall, upon pushing the analyst, the interrogation ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Nudity
Apr. 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1345
Questionnaire entitled "Point of Capture- CDR 1SG/PL/PS." The questionnaire asks [name redacted] a total of 41 questions regarding training and his/her execution of that training. Questionnaire primarily focuses on detainee treatment. ...
Apr. 02, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1349
In the questionnaire, soldier(s) stated there was no detainee training and that there were no incidents of detainee abuse. [Contents redacted].