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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Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4881
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Nov. 15, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2434
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 ...
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2435
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 ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2443
Memo requests assistance in gathering information concerning investigations into abuse of detainees under US military control. The memo seeks to have various organs of the DOD that come in to contact with such information to cooperate in the ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Carol A. Haave
Carol A. Haave
Oct. 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2479
DOD Hospital Record for the October 7, 2004 Incident at Guantanamo Hospital when a detainee attacked an MP who was attempting to loosen the detainees restraints to make the detainee more comfortable. The detainee was subdued with a punch in the ...
June 30, 2006
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Mash Alawad Alhabiri
Aug. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2490
List of annexes to report by BG Formica.
June 30, 2006
Chart/List
Richard P. Formica
May 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2491

Appointment of Brigadier General Richard P. Formica as an investigating officer to "conduct an informal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse occurring while detainees were under the control of [redacted] and were detained at ...

June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Richard P. Formica
Ricardo Sanchez, Richard P. Formica, John P. Abizaid
Nov. 08, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2492
This document is part of an AR 15-6 investigative file with a chronology of the progress and steps taken to investigate abuses at the Abu Ghraib detention Facility.
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Richard P. Formica
Aug. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2493
Memo from Major General Fay to Lieutenant General Sanchez stating that during the course of interviews on Abu Ghraib, five (5) detainees "reported possible abuse they believe occurred at other locations." Three (3) witnesses also "stated that ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
George Fay
Ricardo Sanchez
George R. Fay, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault, Sexual, General
May 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2494
Collection of five (5) sworn statements about abuse in detention facilities in Iraq, attached to ACLU-RDI 2493. None of the statements report witnessing any physical abuse at Abu Ghraib, but all recount claims by detainees of abuse at other ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
George R. Fay
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Sexual, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual