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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May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2124
Email includes a document discussing the Office of the Provost Marshall General's (OPMG) operations. Activities of the office include 33 CID investigations with 37 dead victims.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2125
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists six unnatural/homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder | James J. Lovelace
Donald J. Ryder, James J. Lovelace
May 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2127
Email includes a "Briefing to Senate Arm Service Committee." It is a briefing on the actions taken by the CID in response to allegations of detainee abuse and deaths. The briefing explains that there are nine death cases still "active pending ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
John Warner
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2128
Emails discuss the Criminal Investigation Command's (CID) interview of a Sergeant with the 372nd Military Police Company regarding allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. One of the emails seeks to learn whether the Sergeant reported abuse ...
May 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2129
Emails discussing a press release update. [Documents not included].
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2131
Emails discuss detainee tasking summaries. [One of the summaries is included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
James R. Schlesinger, Antonio Taguba
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2132
Emails discuss a meeting with Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to discuss the following: detainee deaths, homicides and investigations, Red Cross issues, Migration of interrogation techniques and interrogations (GTMO - Baghram - Iraq), ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
James A. Coggin, Keith B. Alexander, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, George W. Casey, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, James R. Schlesinger, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2133
Email includes a summary that discusses the interview of a Sergeant with the 372nd Military Police Company. The Sergeant reported witnessing detainee abuse in Abu Ghraib and would provide additional information to the CID at a later date.
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2134
Emails discuss detainee deaths and prison-detainee charts. [Documents are not included].
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2135
Emails discuss a Schlesinger analysis and a law of war policies chart/crosswalk. Some content is redacted, however, the crosswalk chart contains information regarding the Geneva Convention and international law of war guidelines.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder