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 07, 2009 | DOD-OGC | ACLU-RDI 6158
An email to Jameel Jaffer informing him that, though the Department of Defense is withholding a draft response to Congressional Questions for the Record in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 15, 2005, the final versions of the ...
Aug. 06, 2003 | DOD-OGC | ACLU-RDI 2469
This memo focuses on a discussion and reporting in the UK that the British officials do not want their citizens returned to the UK for trial on terrorism charges and are willing to allow them to be tried at Guantanamo. the memo points out what ...
DOD-OGC | ACLU-RDI 3538
Handwritten note. The name Dave Nahmias, DOJ is readable. Also, the Pentagon is mentioned. Contents Completely Redacted.
Feb. 06, 2006
Notes
David E. Nahmias
David E. Nahmias
Oct. 15, 2004 | DOD-OGC | ACLU-RDI 316
A document production cover letter from the Department of Defense to the ACLU in the ACLU's FOIA litigation for documents related to the treatment of detainees. The letter notes the release of the Taguba Report and some documents from the Defense ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Stewart F. Aly
Megan Lewis
Stewart F. Aly, Sean H. Lane, Antonio Taguba