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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May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2248
Emails discuss notes from a Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research (TIGER) Team meeting. The email mentions that Lieutenant Kieth Alexander thinks there may be a pattern between critical events and abuses (e.g. riots-abuses; ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Keith B. Alexander, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James A. Coggin, Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, George W. Casey, Jr.
Nov. 01, 2004 | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 1295
This Department of Defense memo is to address questions that may arise from the release of the Schlesinger Report and Navy Inspector General Admiral A.T. Church's review of detainee operations at Guantanamo. The memo includes a brief description ...
June 24, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Albert T. Church, James R. Schlesinger, Geoffrey D. Miller
Water dousing, Sexual, Forced grooming, Use of water, Other Humiliation
June 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1188
In response to increased attention to detainee conditions in U.S. government and media the Army instituted reforms on handling and detainees and reporting any abuse. The document consists of several "Executive Summary’s" that detail the issues ...
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Donald J. Ryder, George R. Fay, James R. Schlesinger
July 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 808

[Partially unreadable] Interview of MG Barbara G. Fast's July 20, 2004 Statement re: AG. Interviewed by LTG Jones and MG Fay. Fay explained there was pressure for interrogators to perform, but stated did not believe there was pressure to ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Stephen A. Cambone, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Antonio Taguba, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, L. Paul Bremer, Geoffrey D. Miller, Keith B. Alexander, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, William G. Boykin, James R. Schlesinger, Albert T. Church, George R. Fay, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John M. Custer, III, John P. Abizaid
Physical assault, Other