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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May 19, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 4861
A DIA Official who toured through Iraq from October 28, 2003 through April 21, 2004 was interviewed about his knowledge of the abuse allegations at Abu Ghraib prison. The official stated that he visited Abu Ghraib on two (2) occasions and did not ...
Apr. 24, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez
Mar. 06, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4862
This cable describes the request and process for releasing Iraqi detainees to the Iraqi officials and police to handle the detainees going forward. The standard is whether the Iraqis pose a threat to US and Coalition forces. This document is ...
July 07, 2004 | DON | ACLU-RDI 5019

This memo by Alberto Mora, General Counsel of the Navy, gives the chronology of his opposition (and the opposition of other members of the Navy) to the harsh interrogation techniques authorized for use at Guantanamo Bay by Secretary of Defense ...

Feb. 27, 2006
Legal Memo
Alberto Mora
Albert T. Church
Alberto Mora, Albert T. Church, Donald H. Rumsfeld, William J. Haynes, II, Mary Walker, Thomas F. Kranz, William R. Molzahn, Charlotte O. Wise, Richard W. Schieke, Michael F. Lohr, Kevin M. Sandkuhler, Peter Murphy, David Brant, Michael Gelles, Steven J. Morello, Thomas W. Taylor, Michael E. Dunlavey , Diane E. Beaver, Gordon R. England, William J. Fallon, Kevin P. Green, Susan M. Livingstone, George W. Bush, Jaymie Durnan, Paul Wolfowitz, Jane Dalton, Daniel Dell'Orto, John C. Yoo, Patrick Leahy, Daniel J. Ramos, James T. Hill, Geoffrey D. Miller
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Other Humiliation, Sexual
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DOA | ACLU-RDI 1989

This appears to be portions of a draft of the report by Army Inspector General Mikolashek on detainee abuse at US facilities overseas. Portions of this report were made public and published. The pages contained herein correspond to pages 16 ...

Jan. 06, 2005 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1990
The report of the Army Inspector General (DAIG) follows up on the Taguba report that made findings against BG Karpinski. The DAIG investigations gave Karpinski a chance to review and rebut the report. The DAIG then gave Major Taguba a chance to ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Oversight Report
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Antonio Taguba
Mar. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1991
Document by Army Inspector General assessing the training of army reserve units on Law of Land Warfare, Detainee Treatment Requirements, Ethics and Leadership. The report states that the "way ahead" for the Army Reserve is to nurture and preserve ...
May 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1992
This is a collection of information related to detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib and the role of the reserve component of the Army.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
James R. Helmly
May 26, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 1993
Press Reports re: General Karpinski's Role in the Detainee Abuse Scandal and the Fall-out May 2004