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. 29, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2799

A memo providing the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board.  Contents mostly redacted.

Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Jerry R. DeMaio
Jerry R. DeMaio
Sept. 29, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3302
Contents redacted, except for personal note on the passing of a former instructor at the Quantico training facility.
Sept. 29, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5045
CIA copy of Associated Press article describing U.S. military efforts to stem the flow of unauthorized individuals and weapons into Iraq from Syria.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
David Teeples, L. Paul Bremer, Chris Alfeiri
Sept. 29, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5607
This is the Autopsy Report and Death Certificate of an unknown Iraqi male detainee believed to be Hamza Hassad Twfeek Najm Byaty Al-Zubydy, who died while en route between prisons. It is reported that the detainee experienced an unknown medical ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Hamza Hassad Tawfeek Najm Byaty
Sept. 29, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5606
This is the Autopsy Report and Death Certificate of Abed Mohamed Najem, a detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq. The Report states that Mr. Abed Mohamed Najem was in a detainee collection area when he complained of chest pains, then ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Abed Mohammed Najem
Sept. 30, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1097
Soldier's Manual and Trainer's Guide for MOS 95C. Corrections Specialist, Skill Level 1.
Sept. 30, 2003 | NCIS | USAF | ACLU-RDI 1907
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI) and the Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Detainee ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Sept. 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2800

A memo providing the Assistant Attorney General with recommendations regarding detainees to appear ...

Sept. 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3943
Statement by Todd Huizinga First Secretary at the U.S. Mission to the EU to European Parliament re: Public Hearing on Guantanamo Bay Detainees. Summarizes U.S. policy on Guantanamo detainees - specifically, that the capture and detention of enemy ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview (Statement)
Todd Huizinga
Todd Huizinga
Oct. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1126
The memo is the recommendation that a First Lieutenant be allowed to resign from the military for the good of the service because he has lost the confidence of his senior commanders. He had a lapse in judgment and the memo states "[He] will be ...