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 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2598
Sworn statement of a U.S. Special Forces soldier who interrogated detainees in Tikrit, Iraq between February & May 2004. He is discussing interrogation and detention locations and procedures. States, "[We] used the interrogation techniques ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Assault/death, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Light or sound, Threat, Environmental manipulation
June 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3160
Contents completely redacted.
June 30, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3325
Email is a follow-up on a report of cases involving the UN Oil for Food program. Chris Swecker replys and states: "They are standing down on opening a case and are conferring with the military".
May 18, 2005
Email
Laura M. Laughlin
Valerie E. Caproni
Laura M. Laughlin, Valerie E. Caproni, Chris Swecker
June 30, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3723
Fax cover sheet from Soussen Azarakhchi to U.S. Mission re attached letter to Powell from Boven.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Emmanuelle Gilland | Soussan Raadi-Azarakhchi
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
June 30, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3724
Letter from Theo van Boven as Chairperson of the Eleventh Meeting of Mandate Holders to Sec. of State Colin Powell re: Special Rapporteurs/Representatives statement.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
June 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3726
This State Department cable is from the U.S. Mission to Geneva to Washington with the contents of a letter sent by Theo van Boven in his capacity as Chairperson of the 11th meeting of Special Rapporteurs/Representatives. The correspondence is to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Kevin Edward Moley
June 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3914
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
June 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4292
Email from Ronald Miller to Ronald Packowitz re: "BM for S - PC on detainees." Mr. Miller's comments are "Sorry for short fuse but need a quick turn around on this -- please get your comments/clearance to the attached BM by 2:00 pm today. Thanks. ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan | Bridget A. Brink | Rexon Y. Ryu | Sajit Gandhi | David B. Berns | Ronald S. Packowitz | Christian R. DeAngelis | James M. Waller
Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Bridget A. Brink, Rexon Y. Ryu, David B. Berns
June 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4630
Emails between DOS Officials discussing the death of an Egyptian scientist, Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Azmeerly, who was killed while in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib.
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Joel M. Rubin | Cara L. Abercrombie | Carrie W. Hernandez
Cara L. Abercrombie | Carrie W. Hernandez
Joel M. Rubin, Cara L. Abercrombie, James C. Martin, Carrie W. Hernandez, James C. Martin, Alaa O. Farrag
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Al-Azmeerly
Physical assault, General
June 30, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5130
This map represents the locations of Non-US Coalition Forces in Iraq in July 2004. There is a legend on the second page.