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
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2012
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.
| ACLU-RDI 2015
Same as RDI 447
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2055
Army PowerPoint presentation on the flow of detanees once captured on the field of battle.
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2086
The email includes a PowerPoint slide entitled "CID Detainee Summary." The chart states there are 83 detainee abuse investigations, 28 of the abuse cases involve detainee death investigations.
May 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2109
The emails reference six attached documents, including Excel spreadsheets, which detail Abu Ghraib detainee deaths and escapes.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Jay Alan Liotta, Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2123
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists eight homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder
Donald J. Ryder
May 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2125
Email includes charts, which summarize detainee deaths that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The charts list the case number, manner of death, and whether an investigation is pending. One chart lists six unnatural/homicides in Iraq.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List, Email
Donald J. Ryder | James J. Lovelace
Donald J. Ryder, James J. Lovelace
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2246
Chart shows the ebb and flow of media coverage on detainee abuse since January 2004.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Lynndie Rana England, Charles H. Jacoby, David W. Barno, Richard P. Formica, James R. Schlesinger, Albert T. Church, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern, Antonio Taguba
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4860
This one page document is an index of documents produced by the DOD and the date produced.
June 09, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2322
List of enclosures to Schmidt-Furlow Report on AR 15-6 investigation into allegations of abuse at Guantanamo.
June 15, 2006
Chart/List
John T. Furlow | Randall Mark Schmidt