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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May 13, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 889
Interviewee was assigned to AG sometime in January to interrogate [redacted] general-detainee. Interviewee recounted the following event. The [redacted] general and the son told the interviewee that the [redacted] general's son, who was 17 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
May 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 897
Interviewee was assigned to AG the first week of November 2003 as a Tiger Team Analyst. Interviewee recalled seeing a CACI civilian "grab a detainee off the Humvee and drop him to the ground. He then dragged the detainee into the interrogation ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1769
This Article 15 Proceeding concerns an incident at the Tigris River Bridge in: Samarra, Iraq, January 3, 2004. The charges against the Lieutenant Colonel are for impeding the investigation in to the matter by wrongfully attempting to influence ...
Nov. 30, 2005
UCMJ (Article 15)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Zaydun Ma'mun Fadhil
Physical assault, General, Other
May 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1981
This is a DOD inspector General's checklist after touring a detainee holding facility. it appears the facility being inspected checks out as sufficiently compliant.
May 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2092
Emails discuss a "HASC murder board." The emails are heavily redacted. An attached document contains an operations update for the Secretary of Defense.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Ricardo Sanchez, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 13, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2730
Text fully redacted. Email Subject: DSS Proposed Outline- Iraqi Detainees
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
David Nahmias | Patrick Rowan | Laura Parsky | John Richter | Jennifer Levy | Teresa L. McHenry
David E. Nahmias, Patrick Rowan, Laura H. Parsky, John Richter, Jennifer Levy, Teresa L. McHenry
May 13, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2731
This email includes an attachment of proposed issues to be addressed at the 5/14/2004 meeting with the Department of Defense (DOD).
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick Rowan | David Nahmias | Jennifer Levy | Laura Parsky | Teresa L. McHenry
Patrick Rowan, David E. Nahmias, Jennifer Levy, Laura H. Parsky, Teresa L. McHenry
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2849
Email thread discussing possibility of FBI abuse at Abu Ghraib. One email says "Bottom line is FBI personnel have not been involved in any methods of interrogation that deviate from our policy [redacted]. The specific guidance we have given has ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle, Chris Swecker, Marion E. Bowman, Gary M. Bald, John S. Pistole
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2875
Email forwarding a list of the U.S. military's approved coercive techniques for use in drafting guidelines for the FBI and a 2002 email to General Miller referencing accusations about interviews/interrogations.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
May 13, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2879
Email states recient new article on CNN reported Gen. Karpinsky saying that Gen. Miller wanted to "Gitmoize" Abu Ghraib. The email also refers to article in Stars and Stripes news paper where Gen. Miller had said he believed in "rapport-building ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Geoffrey D. Miller