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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Sept. 14, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1858
AR 15-6 memo from an Administrative Law Attorney with the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. The attorney reviewed an investigation into the September 11 shooting death of an Iraqi detainee, Obeed Hethere Radad. The conclusion of the review is ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Obeed Hethere Radad
Physical assault, Other
Sept. 14, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 5118
General Sanchez states in his memo that "[this] memorandum established the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for CJTF-7." The memo contains two enclosures: 1. Interrogation Techniques; 2. General Safeguards. Gen. Sanchez states that ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez, Daniel Kazmier
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Other
Sept. 15, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1114
Discusses the Article 32 investigation into four military policemen charged with abuse. Abuse counts involve seven (7) EPWs. Abuse includes kicking, striking, dragging, punching and twisting detainees arm. All names redacted. Details the ...
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Daniel V. Wright
Sept. 15, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1953
The purpose of this memo was to evaluate the process of detainee operations in the Division to ensure compliance with appropriate regulations and laws. Provides assessment of units. Concludes that units are accomplishing their overall mission and ...
Sept. 15, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2776
This FBI memo is listed as: Memorandum from FBI to Department of Justice - Re. REPATRIATION ISSUES, 09/15/2003 and is almost completely redacted except for one (1) line: "the FBI proposes that DOJ concur with DOD's recommendation to transfer for ...
Sept. 15, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2795

Provides the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board. Contents almost entirely redacted. In most cases (names are redacted), FBI recommends that DOJ concur with DOD's ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Jerry R. DeMaio
Jerry R. DeMaio
Sept. 16, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4335
This State Department cable provides talking points for a presentation to the Netherlands-Helsinki Committee meeting in the Hague in September 2003. The statement is about the military commissions and the Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters who will be ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 16, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4407
State Department talking points to present to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe concerning human rights and combatting terrorism in The Hague. The presentation focused on military commissions and Taliban and Al-Qaeda ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 17, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2796

An FBI memo to the Department of Defense noting the results of FBI name checks on detainees who will appear before the Transfer Review Board.

Sept. 17, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3593
This State Department cable is discussing the transferring out of Guantanamo certain detainees. The cable states that there is an opportunity to "air bridge" them out in September 2003. There is also a mention of an un-named detainee who refuses ...