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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Apr. 07, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3144
Includes transfer to Bagram, Afghanistan; Russia; Denmark; Pakistan; Turkey; Iraq; Spain; Great Britain (names redacted, but repatriation/transfer status and related date provided).
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3989
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip from Adrian Daniel
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Adrian Daniel
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4764
Questionnaire asked the Staff Sergeant forty-one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Handwriting illegible] [contents redacted].
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4765
Questionnaire asked the Lieutenant Colonel thirty questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Handwriting illegible] [contents redacted].
Apr. 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1377
Questionnaire asked the Captain twenty-six questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Described three incidents of abuse. Did not have enough information and too much time had passed to figure out what ...
Apr. 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1378
Questionnaire asked the Staff Sergeant thirty-seven questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Staff Sergeant stated no standards, only "experience" to conduct interrogation. Also, responded that new ...
Apr. 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1379
Questionnaire asked the Staff Sergeant fifty questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Staff Sergeant stated there were no written procedures in place for when a detainee died in US custody. ...
Apr. 08, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1532
Refers to AR 15-6 investigation's conclusion that the JDOG personnel investigated did not mistreat a person and that allegations were unsupported by evidence. The interrogation was of a high valued detainee at Camp Delta Guantanamo on March 23, ...
July 22, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Jay W. Hood
Physical assault, General, Other
Apr. 08, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2468
Detainee alleged that he was abused while in custody of US forces at Camp Bucca. The detainee claims he was wrongly arrested, beaten, sexually assaulted and had his money ($160,000US) stolen. Once released, detainee filed a complaint with the ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Sexual, General
Apr. 08, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2810
The document provides the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board (heavily redacted).
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Patrick Rowan
Patrick Rowan