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. 30, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5082
CIA copy of Antiwar.com article describing the release of photographs revealing abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Donald H. Rumsfeld
EIT, Threat, Use of electricity, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Apr. 30, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5081
CIA copy of London Sky News article describing Prime Minister Tony Blair's response to photographs showing American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Tony Blair, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Ivan L. Frederick, II
EIT, Threat, Use of electricity, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other, Environmental manipulation
Mar. 22, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5080
CIA copy of Philadelphia Inquirer article reporting on the withholding of names of six U.S. soldiers arrested in Iraq as a result of the prisoner-abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Oct. 24, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5079
CIA copy of Asia Times Online article by Nir Rosen following the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Greg Reilly, Chris Alfeiri, Clinton Reiss
Aug. 06, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5078
This "Medical Encyclopedia" entry defines myoglobin as "a protein in heart and skeletal muscles." It also describes how to test myoglobin.
Mar. 15, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 5077
This redacted memo from the CIA's Office of the Inspector General describes comments/changes to an unknown document.
Feb. 26, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5076
This Powerpoint presentation describes U.S. strategies for "assist[ing] Iraqis in beginning investigations and prosecutions of selected major crimes by Saddam Hussein and key members of his regime" and "aid[ing] in establishing Iraqi Special ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Robert G. Ulrich
Feb. 20, 2004 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5075

This memo refers to the CIA Office of Inspector General's investigation into the "facts and circumstances surrounding the death in U.S. custody of Iraqi detainee Manadal Al-Jamaidi. Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Mona B. ...

Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Mona B. Alderson
Christopher A. Wray | Bruce Swartz
Mona B. Alderson, Christopher A. Wray, Bruce Swartz, Barry Sabin
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Jan. 29, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5074

This letter from CIA Director George Tenet to Pat Roberts, Chairman of the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence, alerts Roberts of the enclosed CIA Inspector General's memo on the death of Iraqi detainee Manadal Al-Jamaidi.

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George Tenet
Charles Patrick "Pat" Roberts
George J. Tenet, Pat Roberts, John D. Rockefeller, IV
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Jan. 29, 2004 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5073

This memo from the CIA's Inspector General, John L. Helgerson, notifies members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives of investigations into the deaths of Manadal al-Jamaidi and Avid Hamad Mahawish Al-Malalawi in Iraq.

Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
Pat Murray | Suzanne Spalding | Bill Dunkhe | Chris Mellon | Jerry Lewis | Ted Stevens
John L. Helgerson, Pat Murray, Suzanne Spalding, Bill Duhnke, Chris Mellon, Jerry Lewis, Ted Stevens
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush