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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July 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 459
Email from the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army directing all army units to report any Article 15 punishments related to detainee abuse either in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from October 2001 through July 2004 to the JAG.
Aug. 31, 2004 | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 460
A JAG Officer is requesting information from a fellow JAG Officer in preparation of a Capitol Hill briefing on JAG prosecutions of detainee abuse worldwide. A specific case involving the death by shooting of a detainee by a soldier at a detention ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
General, Physical assault
Aug. 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 461

Email references a media query directed towards Lt. Gen. John R. Vines for information about the rationale for determing certain detainees as "Ghost detainees" in Afghanistan and Persons Under Control (PUC) and High Value Targets ...

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Dan K. McNeill
Dan K. McNeill, John Randolph Vines
Aug. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 462
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany.
Aug. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 463
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany
Aug. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 464
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany.
Aug. 30, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 465
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany. In response the answer is "Due to the sensitivity, ...
Aug. 31, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 466
Questions whether FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] has a weekly update on criminal cases involving detainees. Reference is made to detainees being held at Fort Bragg and in Germany. In response the answer is "Due to the sensitivity, ...
Aug. 31, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 467

An email between members of the Staff Judge Advocate, forwarding a Washington Post article titled "Documents Helped Sow Abuse, Army Report Finds," from August 30, 2004.

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Ricardo Sanchez, Paul J. Kern, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Alberto Mora, Geoffrey D. Miller, George W. Bush, John P. Abizaid, George R. Fay, Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Religious
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 468
Forward of Slate article, "Goodbye, Geneva: It's Time to Rewrite the Laws of War" by Phillip Carter, from August 24, 2004.