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. 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 630
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Detainee Refusal of Care at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Aug. 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1635
Medical records of a 26 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to abdomen. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or what detention facility he ...
Aug. 07, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3271
Memo from CIRG NCAVC/Behavioral Analysis Unit-East to Counter terrorism- Miami. BAU was asked to provide some specific training related to issues identified while observing interviews at Guantanamo. Discusses meetings/consultations with various ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle
Aug. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4361
State Department cable to Secretary of State Powell giving advice on upcoming visits of senior U.S. Defense policy and Pol-Mil visitors to Australia in a two-week period in Mid-August 2003 "to convey the importance of our alliance to our ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Aug. 08, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 22

Investigation established probable cause to believe that a soldier from C Co., 2/8th Inf. Bn., 4ID stole money from an Iraqi civilian at a checkpoint, and threatened the civilian with his rifle when he refused to leave without his money. The ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott
Threat, Assault/death
Aug. 08, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 390
Aug. 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1245
An Army Colonel emails a Chief Warrant Officer at Camp Bucca to establish a list of detainees that are eligible for release from custody. The email states "I have been checking for several days and many of these prisoners do not even have files ...
Aug. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1218
Coalition Provisional Authority Ministry of Justice list of Iraqi Prisoners being released. All names redacted. The email mentions that eighty-four (84) prisoners at Camp Bucca were authorized for release. It also mentions the Rusafa Facility. ...
Aug. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1219
Coalition Provisional Authority Ministry of Justice list of Iraqi Prisoners being released. The release policy is clarified in this email. Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper and Abu Ghraib prison are all mentioned. All names redacted. The email also ...
May 16, 2005
Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Aug. 11, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2793
Memorandum discussing the results of Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Task Force request for name checks on detainees scheduled to appear before the Transfer Review Board and the Military Liaison Detainee Unit. The contents if the ...