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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Feb. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1966
Army Questionnaire: Questions for the Military Intelligence OIC Bagram, Afghanistan concerning his observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in ...
Feb. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1968
Army Questionnaire: Questions for the Detention Facility OIC, Bagram, Afghanistan concerning his observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in ...
Feb. 12, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2074
This Army Developmental Counseling Form was issued to a soldier that supposedly had an interaction with a detainee at Camp Bucca, Iraq wherein the detainee was not following the soldiers instructions and the soldier said in response " These guys ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Religious, Other Humiliation
Feb. 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2420
Coalition Provisional Authority Cable to Secretary of Defense discussing Amb. Jones Meeting with International Committee of the red Cross concerning conditions in Iraq and specifically the bombing of the ICRC HQ in Baghdad. Heavily redacted.
June 15, 2006
Cable
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Feb. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3124
Emails between Marion E. Bowman, Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran and Others re: Travel to GTMO. A general in GTMO is objecting to an FBI task in GTMO. Admiral James McGarrah requests a "high level" FBI person to come to GTMO for a problem that ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Marion E. Bowman | John F. Curran
James M. McGarrah, Valerie E. Caproni, Frankie Battle, David W. Szady, M. Chris Briese, Marion E. Bowman, John F. Curran
Feb. 12, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3331
Email discusses meeting to be scheduled re: Combatant Status Review Tribunal
May 18, 2005
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
John F. Curran
Valerie E. Caproni, John F. Curran, Frankie Battle, James M. McGarrah, Paul Clement
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 294
Testimony of Sergeant Michael Smith, Army Dog Handler. In discussing how the dog(s) under his control are used. SGT Smith said "Dogs are used at the last level, before deadly force, to prevent escape. I've never had to use my dog in my uses of ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Michael Smith, Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2512
Email references September 2003 Sanchez memo on "CJTF-7 Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy" and asks for a signed copy of the "current policy". The email states "You're listed as the POC on Interrogation end Counter-Resistance Policy ...
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3596
State Department Q & A session with the foreign press re: foreign nationals held at Guantanamo. This is a transcript of the press conference and covers the detention of the Guantanamo detainees, including their demographic information and the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Other
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3999
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Request to Interview Detainees at Guantanamo.