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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June 16, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2009
This is a U.S. Army Foreign Claims form for monetary compensation. The claimant is an Iraqi citizen whose son was shot and killed by U.S. forces. Claimant states his son was a night patrol guard in Annana Village, and on July 16, 2003, U.S. ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Letter, Other
General, Physical assault
June 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2253
Army memo discusses an AR 15-6 investigation into an attempted escape and a riot that resulted in the shooting death of one detainee and injuries to seven others. Memo also includes a list of those wounded during the incident.
June 03, 2003 | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1893
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). The ...
June 13, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1894
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Navy Naval ...
June 16, 2003 | USAF | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1895
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Air Force ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
June 30, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1896
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the interview of the detainee at Camp Delta was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Navy Naval ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature
June 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1330
This document contains the medical records from numerous detainees during the summer and Fall of 2003. The records are not separated to distinguish from one patient to another. However, the records cover the medical treatment of numerous Iraqi ...
June 26, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3550

A letter praising the Bush administration for its work addressing the problem of torture and welcoming the Bush administration's statement that the United States will neither torture terrorist suspects nor use cruel and unusual treatment to ...

June 01, 2005
Letter
George W. Bush, William J. Haynes, II, Patrick Leahy
June 11, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3334
FBI Memo re: Fingerprinting detainees status update
June 06, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3465
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee states that he had been coerced during a prior interview to give untrue statements to investigators. No details given.