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. 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4408
State Department cable providing talking points and summarizes discussion from September 18, 2003 Human Rights and Terrorism Meeting at The Hague. The summary includes a "surprising defense of the U.S. policies in the war against terror noting ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Oct. 09, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5604
This is the Autopsy Report and Death Certificate of Taleb Ehad Kazen, a detainee at Abu Ghraib Prison, Baghdad, Iraq. The Report states that Mr. Kazen had an enlarged heart & a narrowing of the arteries supplying blood to his heart. Cause of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Taleb Ehad Kazen
Oct. 10, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 143
CID report of investigation concerning the theft of money by members of an Army unit during several house raids they participated in while on tour in Iraq. The soldiers were accused of: 1) larceny (of private funds); 2) obstruction of justice; ...
Oct. 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1178
Instructions for Article 15 counseling for soldiers. A soldier reported that once stateside they saw several photos of Iraqi prisoners, and specifically Iraqi women, in custody and possibly in a state of undress. The matter was reported, ...
Oct. 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1661
Medical records on a 20 year-old Iraqi male detainee who was shot twice in the pelvis, thigh and arm. TThe medical records do not state how the detainee received his injuries and does not give any personal information on the detainee.
Oct. 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1662
Medical report of a 24 year-old Iraqi male detainee shot in the buttocks, pelvis arm and leg. the medical reports do not give any indication as to how the detainee incurred his injuries, but does list his treatment and progress.
Oct. 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3820
This document appears to be a cover sheet for a request by [redacted] to interview detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan, Saadia Sarkis, Harry R. Melone, Daniel B. Smith
Oct. 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3823
DOS Fax Cover Sheet, the message description reads: Hoffman-Marriott Memo: Request for Permission for [redacted] team to visit detainees on Guantanamo
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Karl Hofmann
William P. Marriott
Karl W. Hofmann, William P. Marriott, Harry R. Melone, Jonathan L. Withers, II
Oct. 11, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 958
Army Memo from Provost Marshall re: Guidelines for the Interrogation of Prisoners. This memo lays out the prohibition on striking of prisoners by interrogators. Holds Military Police (MP) solely responsible for all actions and deems them ...
Oct. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 300
This memorandum establishes the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for security internees under the control of CJTF-7. It recognizes that security internees who are civilians and who are detained pursuant to Articles 5 and 78 of the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez