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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CIA copy of Chicago Tribune article reporting on increasing hostility to, and assaults on, American forces in Iraq. The article specifically discusses the danger of remote places like Al-Qaim, where Third Armored convoys were attacked several ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Michele Bredenkemp, Greg Reilly, Steve Smith, Antonio Aguto
Asia Times Online article written by Nir Rosen, who travelled with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq. The article discusses various American soldiers' understandings of why they are at war.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Greg Reilly, Ray Winters
CIA copy of Asia Times Online article by Nir Rosen following the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Greg Reilly, Chris Alfeiri, Clinton Reiss
CIA copy of Colorado Springs Gazette article concerning the 1st Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's economic assistance efforts in an Iraqi combat zone.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Mario Franco, Dan Ruecking, Mario Vasquez, Chris Bandel, Stephen Moore
CIA copy of a Chicago Tribune article detailing industrial shortages and Army investments in the Al Anbar province.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Keith Mines, Greg Reilly
CIA copy of a Colorado Springs Gazette article about the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's operations in Iraq.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Tamarra Ramos, Karol Spencer, Benjamin Freeman, Brian Kleager
CIA copy of Chicago Tribune article detailing the running standoff between U.S. and Iraqi forces at the police station in Husaybah, Iraq's "Alamo."
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Steve Smith, Greg Reilly
CIA copy of Asia Times Online article describing the preparation and execution of an Army "Tiger Strike," named "Operation Decapitation," led by Lieutenant-Colonel Gregg Reilly and intended "to pursue those Iraqis attacking [Reilly's] soldiers ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Greg Reilly, Justin Brown, Fred Denning

CIA copy of U.S. News & World Report article discussing the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's Operation Rifle Blitz, which was carried out to fight Iraqi resistance in Husaybah, Karabilah, and Sadah.

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
David Teeples, Greg Reilly
This attached fax cover sheet and letter is a response from Director Gerald Feierstein to Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant's January 31, 2002 letter concerning the Bush Administration's policy with respect to the detention of enemy combatants captured in ...
May 15, 2012
Letter, Other
Gerald Feierstein [nid:12179]
Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant
Gerald Feierstein, Anne Crowther