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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
DOA | ACLU-RDI 299
Rules of Engagement for Operations in Iraq for the 800th Military Police Brigade
Oct. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 300
This memorandum establishes the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for security internees under the control of CJTF-7. It recognizes that security internees who are civilians and who are detained pursuant to Articles 5 and 78 of the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
DOA | ACLU-RDI 301
Mobilization Orders for the 800th Military Police Brigade
Oct. 19, 2004
Chart/List, Other
Chris Geren
Mar. 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 302
Sample Detainee Status Report
Mar. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 303
This memo describes Captain Ray's on-site investigation of Abu Ghraib prison. The memo highlights that "Nearly every soldier had a different method in which they made [head] counts of detainees" as well as the lack of Standard Operating ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Ed Ray
Ed Ray, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Jan. 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 304
This Army document is a Serious Incident Report describing an inmate escape incident at Abu Ghraib Prison, Hard Site on January 14, 2004.
Mar. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 305
Interview of Second Lieutenant of the Military Intelligence Unit assigned to the 320th Military Police Battalion. This officer's duty is to brief the Battalion Commanders staff of any potential threats, both inside and outside the facility. The ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan
Physical assault, Sexual
Feb. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 306

Testimony of Sergeant William G. Cathcart, 372nd Military Police Company. SGT Cathcart described his deployment and stated "We didn't receive any training on the Geneva Conventions while working with the Iraqi law enforcement. To my ...

Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, William A. Cathcart
ISN 151365
Physical assault, General, Isolation
Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 307
Testimony of First Lieutenant Michael A. Drayton, Commander, 870th Military Police Company. 1LT Drayton described the tension between the Military Police and the Military Intelligence components at Abu Ghraib. Then the 1Lt stated "One of my ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Michael A. Drayton, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Jerry Phillabaum, Thomas Pappas
General, Physical assault
Feb. 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 308
Cpt. Reese was the commander of the soldiers directly involved in detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. He said of his men “I'm appalled by what I saw from my soldiers; 2 out of the 7 here are correctional officers. And they were specifically put there ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Donald J. Reese, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Jerry Phillabaum, Steven L. Jordan, John P. Abizaid, Michael Sheridan
Nudity, Forced physical training