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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Email with an executive summary of an investigation into allegations in a May 2004 Playboy article entitled "Death and Dishonor". Soldiers quoted in the article alleged that soldiers assigned to the 1/15th Infantry Battalion had, among other ...
Apr. 05, 2005
Investigative File (CID), Email
Physical assault, Sexual, General
Executive summary of investigation into the cause of death of Abbas Alwan Fadil, a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. Autopsy of the detainee was pending at the time of the summary. The preliminary examination "revealed no signs of trauma or ...
Apr. 05, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Abbas Alwan Fadil
Email with an executive summary of a CID investigation into validity of statements by a soldier claiming to have been involved in the abuse and murder of Iraqi detainees on January 18, 2004, while he worked in the Intensive Care Ward, Camp ...
Email with an executive summary of investigations into a recordable compact disc containing images of suspected detainee abuse in in Afghanistan between January 11 and January 19, 2004. The images on the CD depicted U.S. soldiers holding weapons ...
Apr. 05, 2005
Investigative File (CID), Email
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
General Sanchez states in this memo that the interpreters are civilians who are subject to the Geneva Conventions; the interrogation techniques are only for “security internees”; safeguards must be adhered to during interrogations; segregation of ...
Mar. 25, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
Army Order CORR-101: Guidance on Minimum Standards for Detainees in Brigade Holding Areas.
Forces Command Regulation (FORSCOM Reg.) 350-5: Joint Training Exercises. The purpose of this regulation is to prescribe policy, procedures, and responsibilities relative to planning for, participation in, and support of joint training exercises ...
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Operations Training. To ensure that all units with duty at detention centers are trained in accordance with CFLCC [Combined Force Land Component Command] intent expressed in your white paper. ...
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Detainee Abuse Response. General Burns asked for an electronic copy of this response to be send forward. Attachment includes a sequence of events on FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] training ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
David D. McKiernan
Email from Army Officer to Army Officer re: Balkans Pre-Deployment Detention Training Requirements. Chain of e-mails confirms that upcoming Balkan units need to be trained on detention facility operations and questions where and how long the ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Donald Campbell