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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July 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3319
Emails between Gary Bald, Valerie Caproni, Edward Lueckenhoff and Others concerning a report that a detainee walked in to Temporary Holding Facility in Iraq, called 6-26 (TH 6-26), with burn marks upon him. The detainee stated he had been ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Gary M. Bald
Valerie E. Caproni
Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, Edward H. Lueckenhoff, M. Chris Briese, Thomas J. Harrington, John S. Pistole, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Willie T. Hulon
Physical assault, General, Other
June 29, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3318
And FBI email stating that members of the 78th Military Police detachment advised that a detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison alleged that on or about June 17, 2004 he was abused in a non-specified way. The detainee was initially detained in February ...
May 18, 2005
Email
Gary M. Bald
Valerie E. Caproni
Gary M. Bald, Valerie E. Caproni, Willie T. Hulon, M. Chris Briese, Thomas J. Harrington, Edward H. Lueckenhoff
Other
June 25, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3324
Email from Mark Mershon alerts Chris Swecker about a report of an unspecified matter of detainee abuse.
May 18, 2005
Email
Chris Swecker
Mark J. Mershon
Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker, Mark J. Mershon, Charles J. Cunningham , Charles Phalen, David W. Szady, Eleni P. Kalisch, Jana D. Monroe, Joseph R. Lewis, Maureen Baginski, M. Chris Briese, Willie T. Hulon
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