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 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2118
Emails reference a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Prison deaths." [The PowerPoint presentation is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2119
Emails refer to a document entitled "Detainee Tasking Summary PMG 20 May 04 update." [The document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2120
Email includes two proposed copies of Donald J. Ryder's briefing to the Senate Arms Service Committee. One of the briefings is enclosed, it mentions that there are 69 CID investigations, forty-two of the sixty-nine cases involved incidents that ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Carl Levin, John Warner, Donald J. Ryder
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Other
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2121
Emails refer to a request for information document. [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
May 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2122
Emails discuss detainee abuse investigations. One email asks how many abuses have been reported and how many investigations have been initiated? The Taguba report is also mentioned. Also, a document discussing the operations of the Office of the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2123
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists eight homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2124
Email includes a document discussing the Office of the Provost Marshall General's (OPMG) operations. Activities of the office include 33 CID investigations with 37 dead victims.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2125
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists six unnatural/homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder | James J. Lovelace
Donald J. Ryder, James J. Lovelace
May 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2126
Email includes a document entitled "Allegations of Mistreatment of Iraqi Prisoners." The document contains questions and answers from a May 7, 2004 senate hearing, it states that 122 people are under investigation in 56 detainee death and abuse ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email, Interview (Questionnaire)
Carl Levin, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2132
Emails discuss a meeting with Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to discuss the following: detainee deaths, homicides and investigations, Red Cross issues, Migration of interrogation techniques and interrogations (GTMO - Baghram - Iraq), ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
James A. Coggin, Keith B. Alexander, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, George W. Casey, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, James R. Schlesinger, Donald H. Rumsfeld