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 09, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 11

Two (2) soldiers from 1/9 Field Artillery entered two Iraqi civilian homes by force, stole two brief cases containing valuables and cash from one home, stole jewlery from the other home, pointed weapons at the families while searching the ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Assault/death, Other, Threat
June 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 8
Upon being processed in to Abu Ghraib prison, a 48 year-old Iraqi male detainee complained to the Prisoner Interview/Interrogation Team (PIT), that U.S. forces had punched him in the stomach while transporting him to the prison. The medical ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, General
June 03, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 9

Detainee alleged that U.S. forces captured him and took him to Dhyla Al Mokhadia Base, an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps location, where he was deprived of food and water for three days with his hands tied and eyes blindfolded.  He alleged ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, General, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
CID | ACLU-RDI 6

USACIDC Documents Ready for Release to the ACLU: Specifies pages withheld from 24 CID documents (Gibbons stamped CID000003-001508), including photographs of US soldiers and "deceased foreign nationals" that are not in the public ...

July 12, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 7

Investigation establishing that four enlisted men from 1/327th Infantry Regiment had committed burglary, aggravated assault, larceny, and other crimes in connection with the theft of 56,000 Iraqi Dinar from several Iraqi residences at night. ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Assault/death, Threat
Oct. 15, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3
Letter inquires about CIA's operations in Afghanistan. Makes formal request to visit CIA's facility at Bagram airbase and all other detention facilities in Afghanistan.
Nov. 03, 2003 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 4
Letter to Human Rights Watch responding to HRW's November 15, 2003 letter (at CIA000008-CIA000009) requesting a visit to CIA detention facilities in Afghanistan. Letter does not respond to request to visit. States that "I can assure you ... that ...
May 18, 2004
Letter
Scott W. Muller
Brad Adams
Scott W. Muller
May 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 5
Letter regarding abuse of prisoners urging government to take steps in situation. Refers to Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report regarding the inquiry into the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
May 18, 2004
Letter
Kenneth Roth
Condoleeza Rice
Condoleeza Rice, George J. Tenet, Antonio Taguba, William J. Haynes, II
July 26, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 2

Fax of letter from a constituent to Senator Cornyn stating: "I just read a story about 3 CIA personnel who may have killed three prisoners. The Agency submitted their reports to the Justice Dept. Interrogations on non-Americans by the ...

Letter
John Cornyn
John Cornyn