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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June 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1925
Criminal Investigation Task Force Interview of Detainee who was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The detainee knew members of the Jalallidin Haquanni Network that was fighting coalition forces. The detainee identified himself as the ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
General, Physical assault
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2021
Email between Army officers regarding detainee operations and the need for getting "the right people" in theater.
June 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2188
Email refers to six attachments. [Attachments not included].
June 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2191
Email refers to a "detainee doc integration." [Document not included].
June 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2192
Email talks about forthcoming International Committee of the Red Cross reports. Two documents are attached, but are not included/viewable.
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2462
Army memorandum addressed to the Commander of the Combined/Joint Task Force (CJTF)-I80, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The subject is "Administrative Reprimand" and the document relates to an investigation conducted by the Army CID ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2522
Sets out requirements and time frames for transfer of detainees for detainee operations from August 24, 2003 to date of memo, June 23, 2004. States that "high value detainees are taken to Camp Cropper, where they are inducted into DRS [possibly ...
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2675
This letter is a response to General Formica per his request for certain documents related to the training of non-commissioned officers in handling enemy combatants and interrogation of Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs). The response informs General ...
June 30, 2006
Letter
Richard P. Formica
Richard P. Formica
June 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3021

Email refers to request by TJ Harrington to speak to General Miller regarding the impersonation of FBI interrogators and requests specific dates and details.

[Page 2 of this document was later released in less-redacted form, and is ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Thomas J. Harrington, Geoffrey D. Miller
Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
June 23, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3236
Contents redacted.