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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Oct. 25, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2336
The index lists this document as: Gen. Hill Forward to CJCS dtd 25 October 2002.
Dec. 02, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2337
The index lists this document as: SECDEF Approval Letter dtd 02 Dec 02.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2332
The index lists this document as: Definition - Preponderance of the Evidence for AR 15-6
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2333
The index lists this document as: FM 34-52, Intelligence Interrogations, Cover and Table of Contents.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2334
The index lists this document as: MG Dunlavey Summarized Witness Statement. The document is listed here as: Deferred Pending Completion of Review
May 11, 2005 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 2330
This withheld document is an extract from a report from the ICRC.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2331
The index lists this document as: Cover of AR 15-6, Procedures for Investigating Officers and Boards of Officers w/Table of Contents.
Dec. 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2328
Heavily redacted memo reviewing allegations of abuse of a detainee that was turned over to the Department of Defense on May 23, 2003. On June 17, 2003, he was taken to an isolation block where one other detainee was being held. His new room had ...
June 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Cramped confinement, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
Feb. 06, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2329
Memo from General Craddock to instructing Lt. Gen. Schmidt instructing him to to expand the AR 15-6 investigation to allegations of abuse involving a detainee whose name appears in an enclosure, and to make specific findings and recommendations ...
June 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Bantz J. Craddock
Randall Mark Schmidt
Randall Mark Schmidt, Bantz J. Craddock
May 05, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2326
Memo instructing Lt. Gen. Schmidt to expand the AR 15-6 investigation to cover the allegations of abuse mentioned in two memos, dated December 12, 2004, and February 28, 2005, sent to BG Furlow.
June 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Bantz J. Craddock
Randall Mark Schmidt
Bantz J. Craddock, Randall Mark Schmidt, John T. Furlow