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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
June 16, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2771

Document fully redacted. Email subject: Crim Report for 6/17/2004.

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Robert Hur
Ronnie Edelman | Monica Gooding | Stuart Levey | David E. Nahmias | Patrick Philbin | John Richter | Barry Sabin | Janet Potter | Robert McCallum | Bryan Sierra | Christopher A. Wray | Patrick Rowan | Daniel B. Levin | James B. Comey
Robert Hur, Mark Corallo, Ronnie Edelman, Monica Gooding, Stuart Levey, David E. Nahmias, Patrick Philbin, John Richter, Barry Sabin, Janet Potter, Robert McCallum, Bryan Sierra, Christopher A. Wray, Patrick Rowan, James B. Comey, Jeffrey Taylor, Chuck Rosenberg, Daniel B. Levin, Adam Isles, Laura H. Parsky, Rena Comisac, Daniel Klein
June 02, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 2772
An email distributing "AG talking points on interrogations" in anticipation of a meeting. An attachment is included but not provided with the document.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Steven G. Bradbury
Patrick Rowan | David E. Nahmias | Peter B. Owen | William Moschella | Jack L. Goldsmith | Patrick Philbin | Daniel J. Bryant | Daniel B. Levin | Crystal Roberts | Sean McLaughlin | Rena Comisac | Robert B. Parmiter | Renee Lerner | Rebecca Seidel
Steven G. Bradbury, Patrick Rowan, David E. Nahmias, Peter B. Owen, William E. Moschella, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, Daniel J. Bryant, Daniel B. Levin, Crystal Roberts, Sean McLaughlin, Judith S. Garrett, Thomas R. Kane, Julie E. Samuels, Rena Comisac, Renee Lerner, Paul P. Colborn, David Blake, Rebecca Seidel, Robert B. Parmiter, Patrick Rowan
June 07, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2773
Emails refer to AG's Iraq follow-on briefing and talking point papers. Attached documents are referenced, but not provided.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Patrick Rowan
Peter B. Owen | David E. Nahmias | Crystal Roberts | Daniel J. Bryant | Daniel B. Levin | Jack L. Goldsmith | Patrick Philbin | Sean McLaughlin | William Moschella | Judith S. Garrett | John Richter | Angela Brown | Rena Comisac | David Blake | Thomas R. Kane
Patrick Rowan, Peter B. Owen, David E. Nahmias, Crystal Roberts, Daniel J. Bryant, Daniel B. Levin, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, Sean McLaughlin, William E. Moschella, Thomas R. Kane, Judith S. Garrett, Bruce Swartz, Julie E. Samuels, Rena Comisac, John Richter, Angela Brown, David Blake, Paul P. Colborn, Rebecca Seidel, Renee Lerner, Robert B. Parmiter, Pete Jones
Jan. 23, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3677
Congressional Correspondence Tasker Form from a member of Congress to Paul V. Kelly Asst. Sec. for Legislative Affairs at the State Department requesting an image of a document (not stated).
Oct. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Paul V. Kelly
Jan. 22, 2003 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 3678
Senator John Kerry's letter to Paul V. Kelly of the State Department, forwarding a letter sent to Sen. Kerry by Dr. Michael Grodin of the Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights requesting an immediate investigation into allegations to ...
Oct. 15, 2004
Letter
John Kerry
Paul V. Kelly
John Forbes Kerry, Paul V. Kelly
July 23, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 3679
Letter from Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) requesting Sec. State Powell Dept's release several internal Administration documents regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners and combatants.
Oct. 15, 2004
Letter
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Colin L. Powell
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Colin L. Powell
July 23, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 3680
Letter from Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) requesting Sec. of State Powell to have the State Department provide the Committee on Foreign Relations with copies of documents, and any other legal memoranda prepared after September 11, 2001, that interpret ...
Oct. 15, 2004
Letter
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Colin L. Powell
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Colin L. Powell
FBI | ACLU-RDI 6141
An email by an FBI agent regarding an observation of a non-FBI approved tactic being used on a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The FBI agent reports observing a detainee sitting on the floor of a room with an Israeli flag draped around him, loud ...
Aug. 30, 2004
Email
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Other
Aug. 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4999

This report discusses an investigation into the alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib Detention Facility. The investigation was ordered initially by LTG Ricardo S. Sanchez, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Seven (CJTF-7). LTG Sanchez ...

Aug. 25, 2004
Oversight Report, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern, Anthony R. Jones, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba, Barbara G. Fast, Walter Wojdakowski, Thomas G. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, Jerry Phillabaum, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Charles A. Graner, Jr., Steven L. Jordan, Carolyn A. Wood, L. Paul Bremer, Colin L. Powell, Robert P. Walters Jr, Marc Warren, Sabrina D. Harman, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Lynndie Rana England, Daniel Kazmier, Franklin D. Raab, Steven Boltz, David M. Price, L. Potter, Dennis E. Stevanus, Aldo Fierro, Varej Filhanessian, George O'Kane, Anthony Cavallaro, David O. Sutton, First Sergeant McBride, Staff Sergeant Hannifan, Staff Sergeant Cole, David W. DiNenna, Sr. , Sergeant Spiker, Darrell Jarred Plude , Joshua R. Claus, Sergeant Presnell, Sergeant Lawson, Michael D. Thompson
Use of water, Water dousing, Other, Physical assault, Walling, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Forced grooming, Other
May 07, 2004 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 4503

A one-paragraph excerpt from the CIA's Special Review.  The paragraph summarizes a 2002 OLC memo's analysis of the anti-torture statute.

Aug. 14, 2004
Oversight Report
John L. Helgerson