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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Nov. 06, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5092
CIA copy of Colorado Springs Gazette article concerning the 1st Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's economic assistance efforts in an Iraqi combat zone.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Mario Franco, Dan Ruecking, Mario Vasquez, Chris Bandel, Stephen Moore
May 23, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5091
CIA copy of L.A. Times article reporting on the Pentagon's reversal on its conclusion about the death of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, an Iraqi general who died in U.S. custody in 2003. The article describes the history of the Pentagon's position, which ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Hooding/Goggling, Environmental manipulation
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5090
Medline Plus entry for "Myoglobin - serum."
Oct. 29, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5089
CIA copy of Asia Times Online article describing the preparation and execution of an Army "Tiger Strike," named "Operation Decapitation," led by Lieutenant-Colonel Gregg Reilly and intended "to pursue those Iraqis attacking [Reilly's] soldiers ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Greg Reilly, Justin Brown, Fred Denning
May 25, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5088
CIA memo about a "Detainee Working Group" organized to coordinate the CIA's response to external inquiry concerning its "actual and alleged detention, debriefing, interrogation, and rendition practices." The memo lays out the working group's ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
George J. Tenet
Oct. 28, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 5087
CIA copy of Asia Times Online article describing Iraqis' largely resentful sentiments toward the U.S. military and the latter's beliefs about those sentiments.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Chris Alfeiri
May 24, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5086
CIA printed copy of Fourth Geneva Convention as stored on the website of the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.
Oct. 26, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5085
CIA copy of Chicago Tribune article detailing the running standoff between U.S. and Iraqi forces at the police station in Husaybah, Iraq's "Alamo."
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Steve Smith, Greg Reilly
May 24, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5084
CIA printout of Third Geneva Convention, as available on the Yale Law Avalon Project's website.
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5083
CIA summary of 60 Minutes program on detainee abuse in Iraq. The summary details the program's review of the released Abu Ghraib photos and some of the U.S. army officials involved in the scandal.
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Ivan L. Frederick, II, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Janis Leigh Karpinski
EIT, Physical assault, General, Sexual, Threat, Use of electricity, Other Humiliation, Sexual