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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Oct. 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2709
This Army memo discusses the nutritional sufficiency and health effects of eating primarily a bread and water diet over a period of time. The memo concludes that "diet of bread and water for up to seventeen days should not canoe any health ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Joseph Wood
Oct. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2694
This Memo For The record is a condensed notation of an interview conducted of CACI Interrogator/Screener who was at Abu Ghraib prison on October 4, 2004. This interview was during the course of a 15-6 investigation relating to allegations of ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement)
Abdullah Yahia Yousf al Shabli
May 19, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2527
Update on a CID investigation (number 0281-03-CID259-61236). Investigation has concluded that credible information exists to believe the detainee concerned committed murder. Directs that he be placed on "CID Hold" until further notice. Author's ...
May 19, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2528
Update on a CID investigation (number 0281-03-CID259-61236). Investigation has concluded that credible information exists to believe the detainee concerned committed murder. Directs that he be placed on "CID Hold" until further notice. Author's ...
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2525
Memo regarding interviews conducted at the DCCP (Displaced Civilian Collection Point) on May 31, 2004. Detainee claims that "while at an unknown location he received no food or water and could not sleep due to very loud American music blaring the ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Cramped confinement, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
June 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2526
References documents that outline minimum standard of living for detainees, including the Geneva Conventions, Army Regulations, and Army Field Manual. Notes that Army Regulations do not address "temporary holding facilities of a capturing unit," ...
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2522
Sets out requirements and time frames for transfer of detainees for detainee operations from August 24, 2003 to date of memo, June 23, 2004. States that "high value detainees are taken to Camp Cropper, where they are inducted into DRS [possibly ...
May 28, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2523
Discusses a meeting that took place regarding an AR 15-6 investigation concerning incidents of detainee abuse at Radwaniya Palace, Iraq. Topics of discussion included: "four investigation files into significant incidents" at THFs, including two ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2520
Contents Completely Redacted.
June 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2521
Memo addressing reporting requirements from 24 August, 2003 until 10 June, 2004. Refers to 24 August, 2003 directive to "all coalition brigades or equivalent to report all captures within 48 hours to the 800th MP BDE." As of January 2006, the ...