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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 4804
DOD PowerPoint presentation discussing interrogation strategies. Discusses strategies like "fear up," "pride & ego up/down," [Contents redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4805
DOD PowerPoint presentation discussing interrogation strategies. [Contents redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4819
Contents Completely Redacted
DON | ACLU-RDI 4820
Document appears to be a manual for the First Marine Division, it offers procedural guidelines on how to handle detainees, from apprehension to release. Document also includes form pages, including "Detainee Personnel Record."
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4849
Locations visited by an investigating officer from November 2003 to December 2003. [Document is likely related to an AR 15-6 investigation, but the report is not known].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4853
News article about a German television news report that reported the torture and killing of an Iraqi prisoner by US soldiers at a US military base in Al Asad West, Baghdad, Iraq. The news program, Spiegel TV, reported that a 47 year old Iraqi, ...
Jan. 05, 2007
Other
Luis A. Santiago
Asad Abdul Kareem Abdul Jaleel
Other
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4860
This one page document is an index of documents produced by the DOD and the date produced.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 4864
Handwritten Note: Cover Sheet with: Document Listed as 2-S in TOC are included in USAR index & provided. POC - David Goldsmith"
FBI | ACLU-RDI 4875
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet
FBI | ACLU-RDI 4877
FBI Deleted Page Information Sheet