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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2076
This Army memorandum concerns dismissing certain charges against certain soldiers involved in detainee abuse to avoid Court-Martial proceedings and the legal consequences of such an action. The contents of the memo refers to the soldiers ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Threat
Apr. 24, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2263
Record of UCMJ Article 15 proceedings relating to CID report 0035-03-CID259-6114. Allegation of misconduct was against a soldier for shooting and killing a detainee during a disturbance in the prison at Camp Bucca, Iraq. The report found that ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Ahmes Al-Haddii Yasiree
Physical assault, General
Nov. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2070

A soldier was found guilty of using excessive force during interrogation by ...

Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Aug. 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1857
Memo details a complaint made by a Private First Class (PFC), alleging that his unit members engaged in unlawful behavior. The PFC first alleged that while on patrol his platoon sergeant, a Sergeant First Class, ordered soldiers to fire upon ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
Sept. 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1865
Informal investigation into the shooting death of Iraqi national detainee, Obeed Hethere Radad. The shooting officer, a Specialist (SPC), stated that he shot Radad because he was under the belief that a handcuffed Radad was trying to escape. ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Raymond T. Odierno
Obeed Hethere Radad
Physical assault, General, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Other
Aug. 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1866
The investigative file details a complaint made by a Private First Class (PFC), alleging that his unit members engaged in unlawful behavior. The PFC first alleged that while on patrol his platoon sergeant, a Sergeant First Class, ordered ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Legal Memo, Non-legal Memo, Investigative File
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
Jan. 20, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1879
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, an Arabic linguist was present to translate. The detainee stated his brother attempted suicide three days prior ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Isolation
Jan. 27, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1881
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID. The detainee discussed the reasons why he was recently placed in solitary confinement, he was confined because he ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Religious
Jan. 29, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1882
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and NCIS. The detainee was questioned specifically about his capture by the Northern Alliance (some of the detainee's accounts ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Cramped confinement, Other
Jan. 30, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1883
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, a DOD linguist was present to translate. The interviewers asked the detainee about rumors of a camp uprising. ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General