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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Sept. 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4786
Sworn statement by a Iraqi national who became a detainee at Abu Ghraib with member of his family. He claims that his brother was with the Saddam regime and when he went to visit his sister in Iraq he was taken in to custody as a detainee and ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of phobias, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 16, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4787
Sworn statement by the Commander of C Battery 2-3 FA. States, "I had no organizational relationship with detention operations in 2-3 FA." States that at the detention facility, detainees were provided with blankets but no beds. Mentions a ...
July 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4788
Emails discuss mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo (GTMO), the author would like the recipient, who was assigned to GTMO, to respond with any information related to detainee abuse.
Jan. 02, 2007
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
| ACLU-RDI
Aug. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4785
This email contains an attachment of a chronology and talking points concerning the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, detainee operations at the prison and the 60 Minutes television report on the matter. The information paper also details responses ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
David D. McKiernan
Jan. 04, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 4781
This is an Agent's Investigative Report made in connection to CID Report: 0841-04-CID259-80230. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4782
Deleted Page Information Sheet
June 26, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 4783
These are email between CID officers investigating CID Report: 0841-04-CID259-80230. This document is related to ACLU RDI 1538.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4778
This document is a two (2) page handwritten note on the detainee abuse and conditions at Abu Ghraib prison. The note draws conclusions as well as assements. It appears to have been jotted down by a person with knowledge of the prison and ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4779
DOD List: List of Contractor and Projects Concerning Tank Repair and Diesel Generators