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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Aug. 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1851
Email discusses and includes the "Commander's Conference Update" on detainee operations in Iraq. Includes power point presentation.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
George W. Casey, Jr., Carter F. Ham, Peter W. Chiarelli, John R. Batiste
Aug. 13, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3836
Radio Free Asia article about twenty-two Chinese-origin ethnic Uyghur detainees (they are a minority Muslim population in China) being held in Guantanamo. The article discusses allegations that the Uyghur detainees were abused/mistreated by a ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Colin L. Powell
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4043
Email forward of a Radio Free Asia article, in which Colin L. Powell tells RFA that the Uyghur detainees being held in Guantanamo will not be sent back to China. The article discusses allegations that the Uyghur detainees were abused/mistreated ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Colin L. Powell, Sharon E. Ahmad
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4049
Emails discuss a Radio Free Asia article reporting that the U.S. will not send Uyghur detainees, currently detained in Guantanamo Bay, back to China. Article is attached to message.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Yvette M. Wong
JoAnn J. Dolan
Colin L. Powell, Sharon E. Ahmad, Yvette M. Wong, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christopher N. Camponovo, Ronald W. Miller, Kenneth N. Bailes
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4050
This is a series of forwarded emails of a news article from Radio Free Asia (RFA) entitled "Powell Says U.S. Won't Send Uyghurs Back to China." Messages between recipients have been redacted. The comments of the mail recipients is redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert X. Goldberg
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ronald W. Miller | Christopher N. Camponovo
Colin L. Powell, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Christopher N. Camponovo, Kenneth N. Bailes
Aug. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2059
This Army memo is to detail detainee handling and pre-deployment training requirements for the Iraqi Theater of Operations.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller
Aug. 12, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3995
Cover letter from Craig Mokhiber, Officer-in-Charge, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to U.S. Amb. to the U.N. John Danforth enclosing a letter from Prof. Cherif Bassiouni, Independent Expert for Human Rights in Afghanistan. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Craig Mokhiber
John Danforth
John Claggett Danforth
Aug. 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6018
This email, by an FBI SSA, is to all FBI agents who were witnesses to a prisoner's allegations of abuse. The email asks all agents to reach out to a redacted Army official to partake in an informal, voluntary interview, which will be followed ...
Aug. 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6324
The document is an affidavit of a redacted entity, regarding the transfers and interrogation of a detainee at the Al Asad Base.
Aug. 11, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 159

Military Police Report related to an Army CID investigation #0153-04-CID146-71446, alleging detainee abuse and reveling photographs depicting detainees being abused and mistreated. Investigation was initiated after a soldier's wife reported ...