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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Oct. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4102
Email from Ronald Miller to JoAnn Dolan with attachement entitled: Letter - Prosper to OSD. Attachement not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Oct. 08, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 975
Army AR 15-6 Investigation in to the abuse of a detainee during interrogation. The investigation found that the soldiers from the 104th Intelligence Battalion “used an MP baton to hit a detainee’s feet and buttocks during the course of an ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6), Interview (Statement)
Raymond T. Odierno
SERE, Physical assault
Oct. 08, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2856
The document is a response to a DOD, Criminal Investigation Task Force request for the FBI Military Liaison & Detainee Unit (ML&DU) to conduct a records check of detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board. The document is heavily ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Jerry R. DeMaio
Jerry R. DeMaio
Oct. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3705
State Department Cable forwarding a letter to the U.S. Mission from Boven re: Riduan "Hambali" Isamuddin.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Theo van Boven
Riduan "Hambali" Isamuddin
Oct. 08, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3707
Letter to the U.S. Mission from Theo van Boven, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on torture, requesting that the U.S. respond to previous correspondence concerning allegations of mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Oct. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3944
Email from Nina Schou to JoAnn Dolan and others Re: talkers on arrest and detention of aliens. The email has an attachment of a response submitted at the Commission on Human Rights that had been drafted with input from Quynh Vu of the Office of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Dawn Burton | Gilda M. Brancado | Jason Torchinsky | Linda Johnson | Laura Flippin | Mona M. Ragheb
Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Gilda M. Brancato, Jason Torchinsky, Laura L. Flippin , Mona M. Ragheb , Dawn M. Burton
Oct. 09, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 913
Army Memo re: General Miller's Meeting with International Committee of the Red Cross October 9, 2003. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Steven M. Lynch
Oct. 09, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 990
Autopsy Number: 03-369. Emad Kazam Taleb was a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison. On or about August 20, 2003 he was noted to be pulseless and apneic. Autopsy found an enlarged heart and significant narrowing of one of the arteries supplying blood ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Taleb Ehad Kazen
Oct. 09, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 1909
Interview of detainee at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Detainee stated that he is a salesman of clocks and belts who regularly travels around Afghanistan and Pakistan; he has no association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda; and is innocent of any ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
Oct. 09, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2857
The document is a response to a DOD, Criminal Investigation Task Force request for the FBI Military Liaison & Detainee Unit (ML&DU) to conduct a records check of detainees to appear before the Transfer Review Board. The document is heavily ...