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. 30, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3533
Email provides logistics concerning an upcoming workshop on techniques for FBI Officials on dealing with Muslim extemists. [E-mail from [Redacted] to Lamefford and [Redacted]]
Oct. 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4452
State Department Cable re: October 18 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – no other content or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Oct. 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4462
State Department cable with talking points to address concerns of foreign governments about their citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable states; 1) These individuals pose a threat to the United States and international peace and security ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Oct. 30, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 5071
This article criticizes U.S. detainment processes in Iraq. It states, "Many [Iraqis] languish in prisons indefinitely...there is no judicial process for thousands of detainees."
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Scott Blow, Clinton Reiss
Oct. 31, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1672
Medical records for a 25 year-old Iraqi Male, Detainee, Baghdad, Iraq re: Gunshot Wound to buttocks and legs. On November 2, 2003 the patient became hemodynamically unstable and went in to cardiac arrest. the patient was given Advanced Life ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
Physical assault, General
Oct. 31, 2003 | Executive | ACLU-RDI 5124
A Central Command presentation slide entitled, "Iraq Detainee Population Categorization." The slide contains a pie chart categorizing the Iraq detainee population. Categories include: "Enemy Prisoners of War," "High Value Detainees," "Civilian ...
Nov. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1644
Medical records of an Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to chest and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or what detention ...
Nov. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1673
Medical records of a 25 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to the head with associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or ...
Nov. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1674
Medical records of an Iraqi male detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The detainee suffered a fractured skull in an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) blast. The medical records do not give any personal information on the detainee.
Nov. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1675
Medical records of a 20 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Combatant and Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to the legs and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the ...
Oct. 15, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault