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. 12, 2007 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 6629
This document is testimony given by Steven Bradbury, acting Assistant Attorney General of the OLC before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The testimony contains Mr. Bradbury's summary of the four legal standards that apply to the ...
Aug. 31, 2016
Interview (Statement)
Steven G. Bradbury
Steven G. Bradbury
EIT
Apr. 25, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5746
TThis is an NCIS investigation into the death of Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed, an Iraqi civilian who died following a beating he received by Iraqi Police (IP) following his arrest and detention at the Echo Company Forward Operating Base (FOB) Haditha, ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General
Apr. 06, 2007 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5697
An autopsy report for Ahmad Khalaf Abdal, a detainee who died during an interrogation with a human exploitation team. It is reported that Mr. Abdal was being questioned for approximately thirty (30) minutes when he fainted and slumped in his ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ahmad Khalaf Abdal
Apr. 02, 2007 | CID | ACLU-RDI 5535
This is a CID investigation into the death of Muntasir Hamad Furayh Al Mehlawy at Camp Remembrance II Internment Facility, Camp Cropper, Baghdad, Iraq on October 28, 2006. Mr. Furayh Al Mehlawy was in a communal tent housing unit at Camp Cropper, ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Muntasir Hamad Furayh Al Mehlawy
Apr. 08, 2007 | ACLU-RDI 4510
Document created by CIA component that includes a discussion of enhanced interrogation techniques.
May 27, 2008
Non-legal Memo
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding