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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
June 17, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3466
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about his involvment in Al-Qaeda terrorist training camps. He denied any involvment. He then began complaining about the conditions in the camp and the treatment of the ...
June 23, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3467
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about four (4) men he previously identified, and the detainee stated that he was retracting all of his previous statements regarding these four (4) men. He said he made ...
June 24, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3482
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee appeared to be in ill health and coughed constantly during the interview. He was provided with water during the interview, but it had no effect on his coughing. Detainee states ...
June 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1174
Emails between Army Officers re: Request to Have CID Investigate Allegations.
June 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1175
Description of allegations of two occasions in which soldiers used "mock executions" as scare tactics when dealing with Iraqi detainees. On the first occasion, an Iraqi boy was threatened with a loaded weapon, which was discharged immediately to ...
June 23, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1176
Memo for the Record concerning an AR 15-6 investigation findings of investigation in to alleged detainee abuse and mock executions by U.S. forces. The investigator cannot determine if the mock executions were actually conducted or just perceived ...
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death, Mock Burial
June 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1177
Sworn statement of a soldier who witnessed an incident where an Army Lieutenant abused a detainee and threatened them with mock executions. Sworn statements for investigation. Soldiers state that they were informed they could fire warning shots ...
May 16, 2005
Investigative File
Assault/death, Threat
June 29, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1045
A 27 year-old male Iraqi detainee brought to Army hospital following arrest for theft. The Detainee complained of pain in ribs & shoulder; difficulty breathing; and pain in lower left abdominal. Exam showed a possible broken collar bone, ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General
June 05, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 194
This email pertains to an investigation in to possible violation of law concerning the interrogation of a Bosnian national found that “at the time of the incident, there were no specific guidelines regarding interrogation techniques of detainee ...
June 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 909
Memo re: ICRC Meeting of June 19, 2003. Contents redacted
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen, Albert Shimkus