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. 03, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4856
The Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center's interrogation standing operating procedures, among other rules and principles, it provides an interrogation code of conduct.
July 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4807
FRAGO 383A is a fragmentary Order directing soldiers to treat Iraqi civilians and detainees in a professional manner. The order prohibits the maltreatment of civilians or detainees in Iraq, the order defines maltreatment and provides a number of ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Other
Martin E. Dempsey
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Other Humiliation
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4842
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form is a standard form that officials complete after the apprehension of a detainee. Form fields include, detainee name, location, time of incident, etc.
Nov. 20, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4844
Record of capture documents, including a detainee intake sheet, which has a photo [redacted] of a detainee, along with his DOB and the reason for his detention. The detainee was about twenty five years old at the time he was captured, he was ...
Nov. 16, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4845
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form is a form that officials complete after the apprehension of a detainee. Form fields include, detainee name, location, time of incident, etc.
Nov. 16, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4847
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form is a standard form that officials complete after the apprehension of a detainee. Form fields include, detainee name, location, time of incident, etc.
June 19, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2449
DOD PowerPoint presentation on Guantanamo. Heavily redacted.
Jan. 15, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2338
The index lists this document as: SECDEF Rescission dtd 15 Jan 03.
Apr. 16, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2339
The index lists this document as: SECDEF Memorandum dtd 16 Apr 03 New Policy.
June 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2340
The index lists this document as: CDR USSOUTHCOM Memorandum dtd 2 Jun 03.