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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Apr. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1256
Medical records of an 8 year-old Iraqi male civilian involved in a motor vehicle accident. Medical procedures included a craniotomy, chest tube and a tracheotomy. Patient was described as unresponsive.
Apr. 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1257
Medical records of a 55 year-old Iraqi male detainee suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Medical conditions, include: gun shot wound to the buttocks, groin, calf, left leg & thighs and nerve palsy. The medical records do not state how the ...
Apr. 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1026
Army Medical Information Paper Subject: Issues, resolutions and recommendations regarding preventive medicine support for enemy prisoners of war.
Apr. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 931
Army Memo re: Minutes of April 11, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, W. Scott Cummings
Apr. 29, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 629
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Apr. 06, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 407

A claims form (and follow-up memorandum) submitted to the U.S. Army Foreign Claims Commission by an Iraqi colonel who claims he suffered a broken leg and injured elbow from abuse and torture at Camp Poko. The follow-up memorandum recommended ...

Feb. 28, 2005
Other
Physical assault, General
Apr. 04, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 166
This document is a memo to file for the Criminal Investigation Division to establish interim policy concerning Criminal Investigation Operational Procedures. The memo states that "In a deployed environment, whether combat or peacekeeping mission, ...