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 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2105
Emails reference an attached document entitled "5-17- daily update." [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2106
Email references a document entitled "Information Paper on PMG vice CID." The document discusses the Office of the Provost Marshall General's (OPMG) current and future operations. The document also includes a timeline of operational support the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2107
Emails reference two attached documents entitled "Tasking Summary Sheet #13" and "CID Detainee Unit Investigations Summary 14 May 04." [Documents are not included in the document].
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2108
Email references an attachment, a PowerPoint entitled "CID Detainee + Unit Investigations Summary 14 May 04." [PowerPoint is not included].
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2109
The emails reference six attached documents, including Excel spreadsheets, which detail Abu Ghraib detainee deaths and escapes.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Jay Alan Liotta, Donald J. Ryder
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2110
Emails reference three request for information documents. The attached documents discuss the U.S. Army's role and responsibilities for enemy prisoner of war and detainees.
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2111
The emails reference attached executive summaries that discuss the Army's interaction with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2265

Emails discuss the handling of detainee death and abuse cases, authors comment on the investigations and different training techniques being used as a result of the reports and investigations. Included is an Associated Press article which ...

Feb. 15, 2006
Email
James R. Helmly, Michael W. Beasley, Donald J. Ryder, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John Warner, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Condoleeza Rice, Colin L. Powell, George W. Casey, Jr., Carl Levin, Antonio Taguba, Peter Pace, Pat Roberts, Thomas Andrew Daschle, George W. Bush
Dilawar, Habibullah
May 17, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2727
Text entirely redacted. Email Subject: UCMJ
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick Rowan | Teresa L. McHenry
David Nahmias | John Richter | Christopher A. Wray | Patrick Rowan
Teresa L. McHenry, Patrick Rowan, Jennifer Levy, Laura H. Parsky, Christopher A. Wray, John Richter, David E. Nahmias
May 17, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2878
Email regarding activities at Abu Ghraib Prison. Attachment contains Corrections made to the summary of an interview with Unit Chief about his knowledge of FBI personnel activities at Abu Ghraib Prisons between October and December 2003. The ...