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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Jan. 22, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 567
Email exchange regarding the death of a civilian named Naeem Sadun Hattab who was detained in Iraq. Includes e-mail from a person at NCIS listing seven suspects in the death of Mr. Hattab. A reply to that email from OSD refers to a memo for ...
Aug. 22, 2005
Email
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Naeem Sadun Hatab
May 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 545
These are emails between Navy NCIS and Army CID investigators concerning a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. The CID investigator is advising that NCIS contact HQ and interview the MWD handler because he gave ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba, Donald H. Rumsfeld