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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Mar. 30, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1587
An Army questionnaire, including forty-one questions, given to a Captain regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The Captain responded that one of ...
Sept. 20, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Mar. 31, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1588
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-seven questions, given to a First Lieutenant regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1589
An Army questionnaire, including fifty-one questions, given to a Staff Sergeant (SSG) regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. Staff Sergeant ...
Mar. 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1590
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-seven questions, given to a Sergeant First Class regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1591
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-seven questions, given to a soldier regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The officer expressed his/her ...
June 26, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 4783
These are email between CID officers investigating CID Report: 0841-04-CID259-80230. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
May 26, 2004 | Judicial | ACLU-RDI 3551

Email from Jason Callen, law clerk to Judge Frank Easterbrook, Seventh Circuit, to Jack Goldsmith and forwarded or blind-copied to Lawan Robinson, Confidential Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Office of Legal ...

Sept. 19, 2005
Email
Jason Callen
Jack L. Goldsmith
John C. Yoo, Jack L. Goldsmith, Lawan Robinson, Jason W. Callen
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1528
Army momo on processing detainees in to the detention sysytem. Four (4) steps to follow when detainee is brought in.
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
July 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 568

NCIS received a request for assistance from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) to "locate and conduct a victim interview" of a Guantanamo detainee regarding an assault that was alleged to have taken place at Bagram ...

Aug. 22, 2005
Investigative File (NCIS)
Physical assault, General