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.
This DOD memo is a list of talking points about the release of detainees; how they may be relocated by Al Qaeda and debriefed; and how to address press inquiries about the release of detainees. For this reason, the US Gov't will not make public ...
Report of the International Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights to the Special OSCE Meeting on the Prevention of Torture, Vienna, 6-7 November 2003. The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a non-governmental organization ...
Army Accident Claim Form re: Shooting and Detention of Iraqi Citizen. Woman claims her son, a night guard, was shot six times by Marines, and is now unable to work. This is related to ACLU RDI 434; 435; 436; 437; & 4865.
A claims form (and follow-up memorandum) submitted to the U.S. Army Foreign Claims Commission by an Iraqi colonel who claims he suffered a broken leg and injured elbow from abuse and torture at Camp Poko. The follow-up memorandum recommended ...
Army Receipt of Payment for Claim re: Settlement for Wrongly Shooting and Detaining and Iraqi Citizen. This is related to ACLU RDI 434; 435; 436; 437; & 4865.
This letter pertains to an Iraqi colonel's claim that he suffered injuries when in U.S. custody on a U.S. Navy ship and at Camp Bucca, Iraq. Specifically, he claims that while being processed on the ship for detention, he fell and was ...
Army Pamphlet 715-16: Procurement - Contractor Deployment Guide. Discusses when US contractors are and are not covered by the Geneva conventions in an armed conflict.
This memo is designed to inform and instruct members of the 1st Force Service Support Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force on the collection and handling of Enemy Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and other Detainees. The memo includes the ...
Army Pamphlet 690-47: Civilian Personnel DA Civilian Employee Deployment Guide. Manual providing information on civilian (employees of DOD) deployment procedures. Civilian employees deployed are only subject to UCMJ in "congressionally declared ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Army Pamphlet 690-8: Civilian Personnel - Use and Administration of Local Civilians in Foreign Areas During Hostilities. Basic Policies, Planning Considerations and Emergency Administration.
This CID investigation concerns an investigation in to detainee abuse in Afghanistan. A New York Times newspaper was releasing a story on 12 May 04, concerning allegations of a Afghan Police Colonel that was alleged to be abused by U.S. Forces in ...
This memo is designed to inform and instruct members of the 1st Force Service Support Group on the collection and handling of Enemy Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and other Detainees. The memo includes the Geneva Convention and supporting ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
This Army Questionnaire is part of a larger sensing operation to understand the training and preparation of soldiers in the field in dealing with detainees.
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
An Army questionnaire, including forty-two questions, given to a soldier regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The questionnaire appears to be in ...
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
The soldier recalled a juvenile ...
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-three questions, given to a Captain regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-two questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
The Lieutenant Colonel responded ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for Officer concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
A detainee alleges he was burned with "hot gases" coming from a transport vehicle while he lay on his stomach in the back of the vehicle while being transported. Medical records revealed that the detainee suffered burn injuries which required ...
Army Regulation Army Regulation 190-8 establishing policies for the treatment and administrative procedures for Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees.
An Army questionnaire, including forty-two questions, given to a soldier regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The questionnaire appears to be in ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Questionnaire asked the official forty-four questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees.
Described in-processing as "hasty." When asked about interrogation process, official stated that there was "[n]o ...
Questionnaire asked the Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) a series of questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Lieutenant Colonel responded that military working dogs were used within the detention ...
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Army Regulations 40-400: Medical Services - Patient Administration. Manual that consolidates regulation and prescribes policies and mandated tasks governing the management and administration of patients.
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
US Army soldier was asked forty-six questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees.
When answering the question about how to handle different categories of detainees, Official wrote that he "was not educated ...
Questionnaire asked the official forty-four questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. When discussing interrogations, Official described it as "hasty." Official also stated that with ...
CID Report on an investigation of: i) Aggravated Assault; ii) Willfully Discharging Firearm; iii) False Official Statement; iv) failure to Obey Order or Regulation. The charges stem from an incident where a Corporal supposedly willfully ...
Questionnaire asked the official a series of questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Handwriting illegible] [content redacted].