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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Sept. 16, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2250
Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report into allegations of assault, cruelty and maltreatment of a detainee by guards at Abu Ghraib. Among the detainee's allegations, he stated that a US Army Sergeant hung him by his arms from the bars of a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Donald J. Ryder, Thom Jones
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity, Other
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2248
Emails discuss notes from a Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research (TIGER) Team meeting. The email mentions that Lieutenant Kieth Alexander thinks there may be a pattern between critical events and abuses (e.g. riots-abuses; ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Keith B. Alexander, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James A. Coggin, Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, George W. Casey, Jr.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2242
[Document completely redacted].
Feb. 15, 2006
Notes
Donald J. Ryder
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2239
Document includes a detainee abuse Q&A that asks a series of questions about detainee abuse, detainee death and detainee abuse/death investigations.
Feb. 15, 2006
Other
Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Donald J. Ryder, Lynndie Rana England, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Oct. 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2238
Executive summary provides brief notes from an army senior detainee operations oversight council.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Donald J. Ryder
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2230
Emails discuss heavy crew served weapons.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2227
Email includes a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Draft Army Detainee Operations and Detainee-Interrogation Operations Integration Plan." The slides include graphs and plans to improve the Army's detainee interrogation strategies, overall ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Aug. 26, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2228
Emails reference two attachments, one is an August 25, 2004 briefing to Donald J. Ryder. [Documents are not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2226
Emails discuss an upcoming briefing on detainee operations. The briefing considers concerns that the Commanding General has concerning the number of crew served weapons, a concern also discussed in the Taguba report. [Some content redacted].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Antonio Taguba
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2219
Email refers to a document entitled " Detainee Abuse daily summary PMG 19 Aug 04 update." [Document is not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder