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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DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1123
Deleted Page Information Sheet. Withheld under FOIA Exemption 5, USC Section 552(b)(5).
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1131
Evaluates 2LT [redacted] most favorably throughout his leadership in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1133
Flow chart outlines the detention procedure and the appropriate chain of command.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1136
Investigator's report finds that the accusations of abuse on July 11-12 2003 (the investigative report lists the date as July 29, 2003. However, the sworn statement of the soldiers clearly shows the events took place late July 11, or the early ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1139
Army Memo to the Commander of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment. The memo concerns the reciept of an administrative memorandum of repimand related to the allegations of abuse at Ramadi Palace, Iraq – July 11-12, 2003. The memo puts the date as July ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1165
This is a form to follow when interviewing witnesses and potential suspects in a criminal investigation. The form is part of a larger package of documents in to the investigation of detainee abuse by a Captain and Staff Sargent outside the Ramadi ...
OJAG | ACLU-RDI 1173
CID Report: List of CID Documents Maintained by the OTJAG. Lists of page numbers of evidence in investigations.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1181
Army Memo: OTJAG Documents Maintained by USACIDC. Lists of page numbers of evidence in investigations.
| ACLU-RDI 1183
Bates Pages 8560-9072 have been removed. Releasability determination to be made at a later date.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1186

PowerPoint presentation on the number of detainee abuse investigations, death investigations (natural/undetermined deaths, justifiable homicides, homicides) and other soldier misconduct investigations (assaults, sexual assaults, ...