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 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 888

A statement by an individual stationed at Abu Ghraib as an individual augmentee on or about October 16, 2003. The individual stated that at Abu Ghraib, "there was no oversight of most of the interrogations being conducted as everyone was ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Isolation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
May 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1010
Autopsy No: ME 04-357; 44 year old Iraqi male; apprehended by US Forces in Kirkuk, Iraq after he fired on coalition forces with rocket propelled grenades and small fire arms on April 10, 2004. Detainee sustained gunshot wounds during the ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Physical assault, General
May 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1011

Autopsy No: ME 04-358; Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi, a 75 year old Iraqi male detainee at Abu Ghraib, died on May 11, 2004 after he reportedly collapsed abruptly and became unconscious. Detainee had a past medical history significant for ...

Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
May 18, 2004 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1919
A detainee was being questioned about his attempt to pass a note to another detainee at Abu Ghraib prison. He stated that he was in fact attempting to pass a note to another prisoner who was acting as an interpreter. He wanted the note to go to ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
General, Physical assault
May 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2042
These emails are a work product on the training manuals for Military Police in the field dealing with detainees and how to properly conduct detainee operations. The initial email states that a list of tasks for MP Detainee Ops training has three ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
David D. McKiernan
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2870
Memorandum from the FBI Counterterrorism Unit and the Military Liaison and Detainee Unit sent internally to the FBI Counterterrorism Unit. The contents are entirely redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Valerie E. Caproni, Thomas J. Harrington, Frankie Battle
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3001

An FBI memo about activities of FBI personnel at Abu Ghraib prison during October 2003 - December 2003. Memo is addressed to: T.J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, Operational Support- Counterterrorism Division; [redacted], Special ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Notes
Thomas J. Harrington, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3004
FBI E-mail from: [redacted] to [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] re: FW Iraq Interviews. The original e-mail message includes attachments of inserts, containing results of three FBI interviews. In the reply message, the author states, ...
May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3005

FBI email between [parties redacted] re: Corrected Version of Abu Ghraib Prison Interviews. Emails include the following conversations: "UC advised him of concerns previously documented regarding the DOD interrogation techniques at ...

May 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3068
Email From Patrick Kelley To Valerie Caproni re: FBI is not involved in an Investigastion of the Abuse of an Un-named Iraqi Prisioner, AUSA Brian Murtagh is Investigating the Matter
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick W. Kelley
Valerie E. Caproni
Patrick W. Kelley, Valerie E. Caproni, Brian Murtagh, Jr.