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. 31, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 467

An email between members of the Staff Judge Advocate, forwarding a Washington Post article titled "Documents Helped Sow Abuse, Army Report Finds," from August 30, 2004.

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Ricardo Sanchez, Paul J. Kern, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Alberto Mora, Geoffrey D. Miller, George W. Bush, John P. Abizaid, George R. Fay, Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Religious
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 468
Forward of Slate article, "Goodbye, Geneva: It's Time to Rewrite the Laws of War" by Phillip Carter, from August 24, 2004.
Aug. 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 469
States that Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick told the Associated Press that he will plead guilty to some offenses involving detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 470
Request for an update on the training of personnel re: handling of detainees in the wake of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. Attachment outlines improvements in the handling of detainees. Training includes increasing observer evaluations and ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker
Aug. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 471
Forward of Los Angeles Times article "Officer Was at Crossroads of Abu Ghraib Command" by David Zucchino and Greg Miller, from August 1, 2004.
Aug. 02, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 472
States that all units at Fort Sill had no Article 15s imposed for detainee-related offenses from October 1, 2001 through July 9 2004.
Aug. 16, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 473
Request from KnightRidder Newspapers for an interview with Gen. McNeill about the Commander's Inquiry he ordered into the deaths of two (2) detainees at the Bagram Collection Point in December 2002. One of the detainees was found in his cell, ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Dan K. McNeill
Dan K. McNeill
General, Physical assault
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 474
Email is a response to Sen. Barbara Milkulski's request for information. It states that FORSCOM [United States Army Forces Command] attachment, called Detainee ops, has as its purpose "to provide information on the pre-mobilization training of ...
Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Barbara A. Mikulski
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 475
Training guidance for all soldiers who come in to contact with detainees. This traininig is is related to detainee operations. Attachment outlines training curriculum for all units performing internment & detainment operations under Operation ...
June 07, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 476
Guidance for Military Intelligence interrogation of detainees