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. 04, 2009 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 6161
A letter written in response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request relating to the Office of Inspector General's investigation into the interrogation of detainees. The letter notifies Mr. Jaffeer that the U.S. Army Criminal ...
May 07, 2009 | DOD-OGC | ACLU-RDI 6158
An email to Jameel Jaffer informing him that, though the Department of Defense is withholding a draft response to Congressional Questions for the Record in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 15, 2005, the final versions of the ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 6124
The document is a notice describing an individual last seen in the Fallujah, Iraq area who is wanted for questioning. The document also includes an email about a lost officer who is in Fallujah.
Mar. 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6122
The document is a form to request and authorize temporary duty travel for Department of Defense personnel, filled out for a redacted entity's service in Bishek, Kyrgyzstan, Bagram, Afghanistan, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
June 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6120
The document is a series of documents related to the service of a Major deployed as the Officer in Charge of the DH HAT Team. The document includes a personal letter from a member of the OIC's team, certificate of release/discharge from active ...
Sept. 13, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6114
The document is an email sent from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service to the FBI, regarding a status report on the Navy abuse investigation and the FBI's inquiry into FBI personnel contact with two redacted detainees.
Dec. 17, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6112
The document is an NCIS report of investigation, regarding a Request for Assistance (RFA) which tasked NCIS Guantanamo Bay to interview a British citizen detained at Guantanamo. The report includes information about the detainee interview as well ...
Feb. 26, 2010 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 6109
The document is a letter from the Department of the Navy to the ACLU National Security Project, regarding an ACLU request for information pertaining to the interrogation of detainees. The request is partially denied and certain portions of the ...
Letter
Jameel Jaffer
Feb. 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6010
The document is a memorandum from the Department of Defense Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP) for all service members in the force, regarding proper detainee treatment.
June 18, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 6008
The document is a letter from the Defense Intelligence Agency, regarding the service and honorable discharge of a Marine whose name has been redacted.