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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Apr. 13, 2004 | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1916
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). The detainee "was uncooperative and refused to answer question" but ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious
May 03, 2004 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1917
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The ...
May 18, 2004 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1919
A detainee was being questioned about his attempt to pass a note to another detainee at Abu Ghraib prison. He stated that he was in fact attempting to pass a note to another prisoner who was acting as an interpreter. He wanted the note to go to ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
General, Physical assault
July 27, 2004 | DOA | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1406
Memo informs the reader that the Office of the Inspector General learned of a video portraying images of soldiers engaged in offensive behavior. The video allegedly portrays soldiers with the 1st Battalion 124 Infantry mistreating enemy ...
July 15, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Other
USAF | ACLU-RDI 2464
This memo from General Wooley from the Air Force Special Operations Command is to remind all Air Force personnel that all who come into contact with EPWs or detainees will strictly adhere to standards of behaviour contained in international and ...
June 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Micahel W. Wooley
Michael W. Wooley