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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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 ...
Apr. 04, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2481
This memo is a synopsis of an investigation in to a possible incident of detainee abuse at Guantanamo. The detainee became unruly during an interview and overturned a table and began to kick personnel in the room. The detainee was restrained with ...
Apr. 05, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2668
Statement of a soldier who tested and verified the accuracy of the Vapor Trace 2 System. The soldier then tested a sample of an item taken from a detainee and the subsequent finding of high exposure reading of an explosive (RDX) on a detainee ...
Apr. 05, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5647
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Salmany Tawfeeek, a detainee who died at Camp Victory, Iraq. The Report states that Mr. Tawfeek was shot during a disturbance at the Camp. Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound to the Head; Manner of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Salmany Tawfeeek
Physical assault
Apr. 06, 2005 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 190
Letter from David N. Kelley, DOJ to Lawrence Lustberg, of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Grriffinger & Vecchione, P.C., attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Partially redacted. Letter states "Dear Mr. Lustberg: Enclosed please find a ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Letter, Judicial
David N. Kelley | Sean H. Lane | Stewart F. Aly
David N. Kelley, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner, Stewart F. Aly
Apr. 06, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 191

This is a DOD fax for a release of documents to the ACLU on April 6, 2005. The substance of the letter is that the Department of Defense is reporting on their compliance and production of document in the matter of ACLU v. Department of ...

Apr. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6101
The document is an internal FBI email regarding the release of the name of the agent who stated that there was an executive order dealing with treatment of Iraq prisoners as well as a document that discusses DoD interrogators misrepresenting ...
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John S. Pistole | Gary M. Bald | Cassandra M. Chandler | Eleni P. Kalisch | Robert S. Mueller
Apr. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6320
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding whether FBI agents who were interviewed concerning detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay were advised of their rights as well as the fulfillment of document requests from the Office of Inspector General.
June 15, 2011
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Apr. 11, 2005 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6325
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General request for documents related to detainee abuse. The email details an observed incident of potential abuse.
June 15, 2011
Email
John T. Furlow
Apr. 11, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 6483
This is a heavily redacted message discussing OMS concerns about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques and the legal responsibility for the program.