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.

Search Result (6709)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 16, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 4514
Memorandum from a CIA employee to a CIA attorney. Heavily redacted document, references waterboarding.
May 27, 2008
Other
EIT, Waterboarding, Use of water
Oct. 12, 2006 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5881
This is a CIA Routing Slip. The confirm and document the fact that specific individuals within Congress and the Intelligence community have received the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi.
Non-legal Memo, Other
John L. Helgerson
Pat Roberts | John D. Rockefeller, IV
John L. Helgerson, Pat Roberts, John D. Rockefeller, IV
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi
Oct. 08, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5749
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), Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General
Oct. 04, 2006 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5673
This is tha Autopsy Report & Death Certificate for Rasoul Jabal Daraj, detainee of the Theater Internment Facility (TIF), Camp Bucca, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Daraj sustained his head injury as the result of an assault by fellow inmates. ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Rasoul Jabal Daraj
Physical assault
Oct. 02, 2006 | ACLU-RDI 4990
Sept. 29, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5755
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), Photograph, Medical (Death Certificate)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Sept. 29, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5753
TThis 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), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Sept. 29, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5754
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), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap
Sept. 27, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5751
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), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Sept. 27, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5750
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 (CID, NCIS), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General