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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5036
CIA copy of 18 U.S.C. 2441: War Crimes. Document includes legislative history and analysis of the section.
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5035
CIA copy of excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," recounting a series of murders carried out for the purpose of selling corpses as cadavers.
May 04, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5032
CIA maps of Iraq printed from the Internet.
May 17, 2005 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5031
CIA printout of 10 U.S.C 918, Art. 118, describing the military definition of, and punishments for, murder.
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5051
Likely a cover sheet for CIA documents from, or relating to, incidents in 2003.
May 07, 2003 | WH | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5058
Press release from the White House affirming the Bush administration's belief in the Geneva Convention, but noting that Taliban detainees are not entitled to POW status and that members of al-Qaeda are not covered by the Convention.
Other
George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer
Oct. 12, 2006 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5881
This is a CIA Routing Slip. The confirm and document the fact that specific individuals within Congress and the Intelligence community have received the OIG report concerning the death of Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi.
Non-legal Memo, Other
John L. Helgerson
Pat Roberts | John D. Rockefeller, IV
John L. Helgerson, Pat Roberts, John D. Rockefeller, IV
Abid Hamad Mahawish Al-Mahalawi