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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List of annexes to report by BG Formica.
June 30, 2006
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Richard P. Formica
List of legal references for Formica Report. Heavily redacted. Under a section headed "Interrogation," states, "US policy expressly prohibits as a means of or aid to interrogation: Acts of violence or intimidation, including physical or mental ...
Three maps of Iraq showing OPCON (Operational Control), TACON (Tactical Control), Direct Support, and General Support. Titles and all details are blacked out. First map is dated pre-January 2004.

Sign-in sheet for a Temporary Holding Facility (THF) stating that the undersigned "have read and understand the THF and Policy Memorandum and will enforce the Policy and SOP'S during [their] duty shift at the THF." States that ...

Charts relating to investigation results. Handwritten note states: "137 detainees held by [redacted] units – compiled from data provided by MSC(CF) Units operating detention facilities and verified with information from [redacted]". All ...
List of detainees summaries in reverse chronological including name, date captured, capturing unit, where detained, departure date, and remarks. All information redacted except for some dates of capture, some remarks, a few descriptions under the ...
List of soldiers assigned to duty of Detainee Guard times with emails attached discussing the shift assignements.
List of enclosures to Schmidt-Furlow Report on AR 15-6 investigation into allegations of abuse at Guantanamo.
June 15, 2006
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John T. Furlow | Randall Mark Schmidt
Coalition Provisional Authority blank documents including Apprehension Form, Table of Maximum Pre-Trial detention, processing forms, Powerpoint presentation on interview techniques, rules for the use of force.
Army PowerPoint presentation on the flow of detanees once captured on the field of battle.