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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Oct. 25, 2006 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5748
This 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), Email, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Ismail Na-Ama Ahmed
Physical assault, General
Jan. 22, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 567
Email exchange regarding the death of a civilian named Naeem Sadun Hattab who was detained in Iraq. Includes e-mail from a person at NCIS listing seven suspects in the death of Mr. Hattab. A reply to that email from OSD refers to a memo for ...
Aug. 22, 2005
Email
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Naeem Sadun Hatab
May 25, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 532
Email from Division Chief, Personal Crimes Department, NCIS Headquarters, dated May 25, 2004. Recipient redacted. No text in email. Email sent with attached file "EPW Case Summaries.doc."
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Physical assault, General
June 16, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 534
Email between Marines concerning a detainee case spreadsheet and the investigations underway. The attachment is not viewable.
July 09, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 536
These emails are between Marine Corps officers concerning an updated version of the detainee abuse cases involving Marines. The email has a spreadsheet attached that is not readable in the document; however, the email alludes to details contained ...
July 29, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 538
These emails are between Marine Corps officers concerning an updated version of the detainee abuse cases involving Marines. The email has a spreadsheet attached that is not readable in the document; however, the email alludes to details contained ...
Aug. 05, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 540
These emails are between Marine Corps officers concerning an updated version of the detainee abuse cases involving Marines. The email has a spreadsheet attached that is not readable in the document; however, the email alludes to details contained ...
July 22, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 542
These emails are between Marine Corps officers concerning an updated version of the detainee abuse cases involving Marines. The email has a spreadsheet attached that is not readable in the document; however, the email alludes to details contained ...
May 26, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 544
These emails are between Marine Corp investigators seeking a marine who is suspected in a detainee abuse case. One officer concludes that the Marine they are looking for is located, but that the photo initiating the investigation was a staged ...
May 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 545
These are emails between Navy NCIS and Army CID investigators concerning a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. The CID investigator is advising that NCIS contact HQ and interview the MWD handler because he gave ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba, Donald H. Rumsfeld