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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Emails reference an attached document entitled "5-17- daily update." [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Email references a document entitled "Information Paper on PMG vice CID." The document discusses the Office of the Provost Marshall General's (OPMG) current and future operations. The document also includes a timeline of operational support the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
The emails reference six attached documents, including Excel spreadsheets, which detail Abu Ghraib detainee deaths and escapes.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Jay Alan Liotta, Donald J. Ryder
Email refers to an attached document that discusses internment operations and law of war training. A particular paragraph in the document outlines the Army's rules/guidelines, stating soldiers do not kill or torture enemy prisoners.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Jay Alan Liotta, Donald J. Ryder
Emails reference a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Prison deaths." [The PowerPoint presentation is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
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
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
Emails refer to a request for information document. [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
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
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