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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CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5110

Emails that appear to be primarily between staff of the CIA's Office of the Inspector General, relating to the OIG's investigation of the CIA's interrogation program. The emails primarily concern the arrangment of interviews relevant to the ...

Aug. 01, 2013
Email
John L. Helgerson
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5038
Summary of CIA activities at the Abu Ghraib prison. A handwritten note marks the summary as "D/N Talking Points." Some of the bulleted paragraphs are redacted.
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Dec. 04, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5042
CIA-run LexisNexis search results for "Iraq War News" and "mowhoush." Results include twelve published news articles relating to the death of Iraqi General Abed Hamed Mowhoush while in U.S. custody and under U.S. interrogation.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
L. Paul Bremer
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Hooding/Goggling, Environmental manipulation
Nov. 28, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5043
CIA copy of a Los Angeles Times article reporting the death of former Iraqi general Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
May 05, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5056
This May 5, 2004 transcript from ABC World News Tonight: ABC TV reports on the CIA's investigation into the death of "Mon Adel Al-Jamadi" and "Abed Amid Mahoush" in Iraq as well as the death of a detainee in Afghanistan. It describes the Abu ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Bob Baer
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Other
May 05, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5057
This article describes the government's criminal investigations into the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan following the Abu Ghraib scandal. The report describes ongoing investigations by the CIA's Inspector General and ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George W. Bush, Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Abdul Basat Al-Turki, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, John Warner, Edward M. Kennedy, Carl Levin, Geoffrey D. Miller
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
May 06, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5062
This article describes the Justice Department's investigation into the deaths of three detainees in U.S. custody, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. The investigation focused on the role of CIA officers and contract employers in the deaths. As ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Pat Roberts, Antonio Taguba
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Physical assault, General
May 23, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5091
CIA copy of L.A. Times article reporting on the Pentagon's reversal on its conclusion about the death of Abed Hamed Mowhoush, an Iraqi general who died in U.S. custody in 2003. The article describes the history of the Pentagon's position, which ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Family/others, Hooding/Goggling, Environmental manipulation
May 07, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5103
CIA copy of Washington Post article reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had stated that killings or abuse of military detainees in Iraq that involved civilian contractors could be prosecuted by the Justice Department. Ashcroft's ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
John D. Ashcroft
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush
May 07, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5066

This article describes the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, focusing on the photographed bodies of deceased detainees. It describes the CIA Inspector General's and DOJ's investigations into the possibility that the Abu ...

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Antonio Taguba, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Fazel Akbar
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Abdul Wali
Physical assault, Other Humiliation