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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Aug. 25, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 119
Investigation initiated following discovery of a CD during an office clean-up in Afghanistan, containing numerous pictures of American soldiers posing with pistols and M-4 rifles pointed at the heads and backs of hooded and bound detainees. The ...
Jan. 31, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Feb. 26, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 376
Army Central Command Combined Arms Assessment Team Initial Impressions Report (ARCENT CAAT). This is a report in several chapters concerning various aspects of military operations and assessments.
Jan. 31, 2005
Other
Donald H. Rumsfeld
DOA | ACLU-RDI 385
This is an Army PowerPoint Presentation on the use of interview techniques to be used by Military Police investigators.
July 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 402
Army Regulation 40-66: Medical Record Administration and Health Care Documentation.. Dated: July 20, 2004.
Jan. 11, 1994 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 405

Army Regulation 638-2: DA PAM 385-40 Army Accident Investigation and Reporting

DOA | ACLU-RDI 4864
Handwritten Note: Cover Sheet with: Document Listed as 2-S in TOC are included in USAR index & provided. POC - David Goldsmith"
Sept. 27, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4416
Email forwarding cable concerning a meeting with representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC).
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Steven A. Solomon | Michael T. Peay | David W. Bowker
Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, Michael T. Peay, David W. Bowker, William Howard Taft, IV, David A. Kaye, Marianne J. Hata
Dec. 05, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4417
Ms. Holman request that Mr. Bloom prepare a memo to covering a Harty-Biegun memo.
Jan. 12, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Beverly S. Holman
Evan T. Bloom
Beverly S. Holman, Evan T. Bloom
Dec. 04, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4418
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip for action memo to S on Harty-Biegun memo.
Dec. 20, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4419
Email from John Cerone to David Bowker forwarding an article (in body) by Cerone on the "Status of deatinees in international armed conflict, and their protection in the course of criminal proceedings."
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
John Cerone
David W. Bowker
David W. Bowker