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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June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1289
Male Iraqi National, DOB: January 1, 1960. Circumstances of death are described as: "[t]his 44 year old male, an Iraqi National, was apprehended by US Forces in Kirkuk, Iraq after he and two accomplices fired on coalition forces with rocket ...
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1290
Male Iraqi National, 75, collapsed and died during transport to a facility hospital. Circumstances of death: The detainee at the Central Baghdad Detainee Facility (Abu Ghraib) on 11 May 2004 he reportedly abruptly collapsed and became ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
June 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1291
Detainee Abduhl Kaddim Altia died while at Abu Ghraib prison. The circumstances of death: Died while in US custody in Abu Ghraib prison. Detainee complained of chest pain to his son and then collapsed." Iraqi male, 64 years old (1940 DOB listed), ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Abduhl Kaddim Altia
Jan. 22, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4671
Cover page for document to be delivered to administration personnel concerning the January 22, 2004 PCC meeting on detainees.
June 08, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Eliana Davidson, John B. Wiegmann
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4674
State Department cover sheet for delivery of documents re: PCC Meeting on Detainees
June 08, 2005
Other
John Bellinger
JoAnn J. Dolan | Pierre-Richard Prosper | Anthony Fortune
John B. Bellinger, III, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, Anthony Fortune, Jay Alan Liotta, Bruce Swartz, Diane E. Beaver, Eliana Davidson, Patrick Rowan
Apr. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4679
Emails between Mathew Waxman and Amb. Prosper concering a meeting on the detainees. The comments from Mr. Waxman are "Am I correct that what we need -- and I think this is what Pierre was recommending -- is a one-page sheet BEFORE we get to these ...
June 08, 2005
Email
Mathew C. Waxman
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Matthew C. Waxman, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller
Nov. 07, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4680
Email from Laurel Miller with the following comment "rom detainee policy working group at OSD just called to give us the heads up a sensitive and potentially inflammatory photos of detainees being moved by aircraft in theater are now circulating ...
June 08, 2005
Email
Laurel E. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan | David L. Scott | Brian H. Leventhal | Atul Keshap | Kara L. Bue | Geeta Pasi
Laurel E. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, David L. Scott, Brian H. Leventhal, Atul Keshap, Kara L. Bue, Geeta Pasi
Sept. 23, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4683
White House Cover Sheet re: Transmission Receipt of SOC Meeting on Detainees
Feb. 07, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4684
This White House memo discusses the treatment of detainees taken in the War on Terror and how they are to be classified and the determination of their legal status.
June 08, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
Richard B. Cheney | Colin L. Powell | Donald H. Rumsfeld | John D. Ashcroft | I. Lewis Libby | George Tenet | Condoleeza Rice
George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Colin L. Powell, John D. Ashcroft, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, I. Lewis Libby, George J. Tenet
May 15, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4687
White House Cover Sheet re: Transmission Receipt of SOC for PC Meeting on Detainees