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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Email between Joint Task Force 7 with attached spreadsheet. The email states "[This reflects the information we gathered from all subordinate elements on whether or not they maintained a temporary detention facility or an interrogation facility ...
Sworn statement of an Iraqi civilian mentions a female detainee and her two (2) brothers as supporting Anti-coalition activities, but states that they "were never threatened, beaten, or abused." Also refers to an Iraqi Policeman.

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and that he was responsible for rocket attacks against the United States forces from the Laywan Mountain. Detainee denied being a member of ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Habib Rahman
Physical assault, General, Threat, Use of phobias, Nudity
Lists cases and investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases are listed by: Case ID, agency investigating, type, unit/place, date of occurrence, date of report, report by, closed or open, status [redacted], note.
Lists cases and investigations in spreadsheet format. Cases listed by: Case ID, agency investigating, type, unit/place, date of occurrence, date of report, report by, closed or open, status, etc.
An email, including forwarded emails, regarding the legality of another agency requesting to interview FBI personnel. The author of one of the forwarded emails states that whenever this type of request is made, both the agent and FBI are to be ...
Apr. 27, 2009
Email
Toni M. Fogle
Toni M. Fogle
An email about scheduling for an interview with the Army.
Investigation based on civilian contractor's allegation that he witnessed U.S. Marines abusing Iraqi detainees. In a sworn statement the contractor says he saw Marines place bags over an Iraqi prisoners' heads and strike him in the head with a ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Attention grasp, General, Threat, Assault/death, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
FBI Letter from T. J. Harrington to the Dept. of Defense concerning suspected mistreatment of detainees. The letter notifies DOD of three separate incidents of "highly aggressive interrogation techniques being used against detainees in ...
This document is a letter from the US Army trial counsel responsible for prosecuting Specialist [redacted] and Sergeant [redacted] "in connection with detainee abuse at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility." The letter mentions a New York ...