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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Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 475
Training guidance for all soldiers who come in to contact with detainees. This traininig is is related to detainee operations. Attachment outlines training curriculum for all units performing internment & detainment operations under Operation ...
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 476
Guidance for Military Intelligence interrogation of detainees
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 477
Directs all post-Abu Ghraib inquiries about training to General Kelley.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Julian Burns
James A Kelley
Julian H. Burns, James A Kelley
May 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 478
References attachment (not included) for responses for the Schlesinger Panel.
May 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 479
Email concerns updated Military police operations for handling detainees in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse.
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
May 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 480
E-mail requests the recipient review and comment on the proposed attachment. Attachment not included.
May 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 481
Operation Iraqi Freedom Detainee Operations and Training Guidance. Attachments are copies of outlines on transparancies used in training.
Sept. 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 482
Request guidance on units involved in detainee operations in Afghanistan
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Julian Burns
Julian H. Burns
Aug. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 483
Email between Army officers re: Pre-Deployment Training Requirements for the Iraqi Theater for Military Police Units
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
May 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 484

Emails between Army officers sharing the results of the Taguba Report concerning the events of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
James R. Helmly, Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Paul Hill, Julian H. Burns, Donald J. Ryder