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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 2358
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2360
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2362
Heavily redacted memo from Joint Task force 160 requesting Joint Detention Operations Group support for an operation. The email authjor states that "This request has been reviewed by my Staff Judge Advocate and determined to be legally sufficient".
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2363
The index lists this document as: Summarized Witness Statement
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2364
The index lists this document as: Interrogation Level Timeline
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2365
The index lists this document as: Summarized Witness Statement
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2366
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2367
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2374
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2385
This one page document is listed in the index as: Maj [redacted] Sworn Statement, but this heavily redacted document appears to be more like the Shift Log for Detainees at Guantanamo rather than a Sworn Statement. The document reads as follows: ...