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 01, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2274
CID report of investigation into allegations made by a detainee that, after his first arrested on April 25, 2004 he was punched, kicked and slapped at then transported to a facility at Mosul Airfield known as the “Disco”. He stated that during ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Nudity
June 05, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2275
Detainee alleges that after being taken in to custody on June 21, 2004 he was placed in a small cell beaten by soldiers while his hands were, handcuffed behind his back, not glowed to use the restroom, forced to urinate and forced to defecate on ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Physical assault, General, Cramped confinement, Dietary manipulation, Other Humiliation
Apr. 02, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2273
A Time magazine article claimed that an Iraqi national taken in to custody along with other family members was the subject of cruel and humiliating treatment at the hands of US forces. The charges include physical and sexual abuse. However, the ...
Sept. 16, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2271
CID investigation of the death of a detainee in custody at Camp Cropper. On January 31, 2004 a detainee at Camp Cropper died of a brain hemorrhage from an unknown origin. The death was not considered homicide.
Mar. 05, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2272
Investigation into death of detainee. Established probable cause to believe that several soldiers committed offense of assault against detainee, negligent homicide, cruelty and maltreatment, conspiracy and false statement. Detainee died when ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2268
The document lists the names of four soldiers discharged prior to their court-martial hearings. The soldiers faced charges for abusing detainees at Camp Bucca, Iraq; their names, offenses and punishment/reprimand are listed in the document.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Michael Diamond, David D. McKiernan
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2269
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes it withheld bates pages 23521-23523 pursuant to FOIA exemptions.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2270

 A blank separator page.

May 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2267
The executive summary, dated May 5, 2004, contains a table listing Military Police officers from the 377th Military Police Company who were flagged for various offenses. The pending investigations concern the deaths of two Bagram detainees ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
David D. McKiernan, Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas F. Metz, James R. Helmly, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Javal Sean Davis, Megan M. Ambuhl, Charles A. Graner, Jr., Sabrina D. Harman, Jeremy C. Sivits, Michael N. Ertman, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Lynndie Rana England
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2265

Emails discuss the handling of detainee death and abuse cases, authors comment on the investigations and different training techniques being used as a result of the reports and investigations. Included is an Associated Press article which ...

Feb. 15, 2006
Email
James R. Helmly, Michael W. Beasley, Donald J. Ryder, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John Warner, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Condoleeza Rice, Colin L. Powell, George W. Casey, Jr., Carl Levin, Antonio Taguba, Peter Pace, Pat Roberts, Thomas Andrew Daschle, George W. Bush
Dilawar, Habibullah