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 memorandum addressed to the Commander of the Combined/Joint Task Force (CJTF)-I80, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The subject is "Administrative Reprimand" and the document relates to an investigation conducted by the Army CID ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Instructions on what to do when notified of an Enemy Prisoner of War/defector is captured. When searching the person, "A JAG presence is a good idea; keep a JAG near-by if debriefing a Muslim-radical as they anticipate US torture and will claim ...
This memo details how a Staff Sergeant took photos of himself standing with his rifle with his left foot propped on the detainee's buttocks, who is lying in the sand with hands bound behind his back and a sack covering his head. Photo was taken ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Other Humiliation
This memo concerns the legal investigation and determination by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations following the discovery of photos depicting detainees bound, hooded and apparently abused while in custody. The photos were discovered ...
Detainee alleged that he was abused while in custody of US forces at Camp Bucca. The detainee claims he was wrongly arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and had his money ($160,000US) stolen. Once released, detainee filed a complaint with the ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Sexual, General
This memo focuses on a discussion and reporting in the UK that the British officials do not want their citizens returned to the UK for trial on terrorism charges and are willing to allow them to be tried at Guantanamo. the memo points out what ...
This memo serves as an update on events and happenings at Guantanamo Detention facility. It is noted that Senator Cornyn (R-TX) visited Guantanamo on Monday to view US detainee detention facilities and conditions. Also it reports that there are ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
John Cornyn
This DOD memo is an update on the of detainees in the Iraqi detention facilities as part of detainee operations. This memo collects news articles and updates the reader on new and information specific to detainee operations. It states that there ...
A detainee who was not interested in being interrogated got in to a verbal spat with an interrogator who, after becoming angry with the detainee, threw a refrigerator and a chair at the detainees, injuring the detainee. There was also some very ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, Other Humiliation
This is an email from one DOD official to another regarding an incident where a detainee, while being interrogated, lunged out of his chair and attempted to attack the interpreter. The detainee bit the finger of the Special Agent in charge of the ...
June 30, 2006
Email
Hisham Bin Ali Bin Amor Sliti