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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Aug. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2030
This email forwards a news article from the Slate news service on the investigation of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. There is no context to the email.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Ricardo Sanchez
Aug. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2033
This document is an email forwarding of a Los Angeles Times Article of August 1, 2004 on Captain Carolyn A. Wood, who was the Military Intelligence Officer at Abu Ghraib prison and who supposedly created a chart of interrogation techniques that ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Ricardo Sanchez, Carolyn A. Wood
May 20, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1756

This Court Martial record (volume 5 of 8) discusses the court martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick, II, who was charged for offenses he committed while assigned to the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility on or about November 08, ...

Nov. 30, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Ivan L. Frederick, II, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ricardo Sanchez, Antonio Taguba, George R. Fay, Megan M. Ambuhl, Charles A. Graner, Jr., Jeremy C. Sivits, Javal Sean Davis, Sabrina D. Harman, Armin J. Cruz, Lynndie Rana England, Paul J. Kern, Anthony R. Jones, Geoffrey D. Miller, Walter Wojdakowski, Barbara G. Fast, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Steven L. Jordan, Jason L. Jones, Togo D. West, Jr., Richard A. Coleman, J.L. Johnson, J.S. Mobley, Barbara G. Fast, Thomas Pappas
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Threat, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Forced grooming, Other
May 20, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1758
This Court Martial record (volume 7 of 8) discusses the court martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick, II, who was charged for offenses he committed while assigned to the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility on or about November 08, ...
Nov. 30, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Ivan L. Frederick, II, Megan M. Ambuhl, Javal Sean Davis, Charles A. Graner, Jr., Sabrina D. Harman, Jeremy C. Sivits, Armin J. Cruz, Lynndie Rana England, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Tom Romero, Roman Krol, Thomas F. Metz
May 20, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1759
This Court Martial record (volume 8 of 8) discusses the court martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick, II, who was charged for offenses he committed while assigned to the Abu Ghraib Detention Facility on or about November 08, ...
Nov. 30, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial), Judicial (Opinion)
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, George R. Fay, Armin J. Cruz, Roman Krol, Judge Merck, Judge Johnson, Judge Moore, Thomas F. Metz, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt
Oct. 23, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1564

Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report pertaining to the abuse of a detainee at an unknown location. The detainee alleged that he was forced to walk on hot pavement, punched and kicked all over his body, had his ribcage fractured, and was ...

Sept. 20, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Ricardo Sanchez, Pamela Andrews
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Other
Nov. 17, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1113
Summarizes allegations against an Army officer accused of assault and threatening to kill Iraqi detainee. Describes investigation and military justice process.
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez, Raymond T. Odierno
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1192
Instructions on how to handle Abu Ghraib investigation on a public relations level. Primary message is that abuses at Abu Ghraib was committed by a "small group of soldiers and civilian contractors who apparently failed to respect the dignity of ...
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern, Anthony R. Jones
May 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1195
Department of Defense talking points on Abu Ghraib detainee abuse which highlight how abuse is fundamentally against American military standards, how the majority of U.S. soldiers conduct themselves honorably, and how the abuse will be ...
May 16, 2005
Email
Peter Pace, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, George W. Casey, Jr., Geoffrey D. Miller, John P. Abizaid
May 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1196
Department of Defense talking points on the Abu Ghraib prison abuse. Main points include how disturbing the images are, how the Secretary and the DOD are taking the charges seriously, how the Department will hold violators accountable, how the ...
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Peter Pace, George W. Casey, Jr., John P. Abizaid, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Antonio Taguba