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 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2128
Emails discuss the Criminal Investigation Command's (CID) interview of a Sergeant with the 372nd Military Police Company regarding allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. One of the emails seeks to learn whether the Sergeant reported abuse ...
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2131
Emails discuss detainee tasking summaries. [One of the summaries is included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
James R. Schlesinger, Antonio Taguba
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2132
Emails discuss a meeting with Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to discuss the following: detainee deaths, homicides and investigations, Red Cross issues, Migration of interrogation techniques and interrogations (GTMO - Baghram - Iraq), ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
James A. Coggin, Keith B. Alexander, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, George W. Casey, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, James R. Schlesinger, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2133
Email includes a summary that discusses the interview of a Sergeant with the 372nd Military Police Company. The Sergeant reported witnessing detainee abuse in Abu Ghraib and would provide additional information to the CID at a later date.
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2134
Emails discuss detainee deaths and prison-detainee charts. [Documents are not included].
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2135
Emails discuss a Schlesinger analysis and a law of war policies chart/crosswalk. Some content is redacted, however, the crosswalk chart contains information regarding the Geneva Convention and international law of war guidelines.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2248
Emails discuss notes from a Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research (TIGER) Team meeting. The email mentions that Lieutenant Kieth Alexander thinks there may be a pattern between critical events and abuses (e.g. riots-abuses; ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Keith B. Alexander, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James A. Coggin, Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, George W. Casey, Jr.
May 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2494
Collection of five (5) sworn statements about abuse in detention facilities in Iraq, attached to ACLU-RDI 2493. None of the statements report witnessing any physical abuse at Abu Ghraib, but all recount claims by detainees of abuse at other ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
George R. Fay
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Sexual, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2549
Handwritten transcript of questions and answers regarding allegations of abuse; the name of the individual answering questions has been redacted. Interviewee implicates Iraqi Police in abuse, and states that there are no "allegations of abuse by ...
May 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2673
Statement of screener at Abu Ghraib with CACI, III Corps 504th Military Intelligence Brigade, 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion. "During the period from around Nov '03 to Jan '04, I recognized that a number of detainees brought to Abu Ghraib ...