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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Nov. 16, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4847
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form is a standard form that officials complete after the apprehension of a detainee. Form fields include, detainee name, location, time of incident, etc.
Nov. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4848
The sworn statements of a Sergeant First Class and a Captain discussing the capture of four Iraqi targets. At least one target shot at the U.S. soldiers when the soldiers raided their home.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4849
Locations visited by an investigating officer from November 2003 to December 2003. [Document is likely related to an AR 15-6 investigation, but the report is not known].
Nov. 22, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4850
This synopsis of events concerns the taking of prisoners from a house in Baqubah, Iraq, November 22, 2003 from where gunfire upon U.S./Coalition forces emanated. The report of events is by the investigating officer and details the actions of ...
Nov. 25, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4851
This memo discusses an official's appointment to Investigating Officer for the purpose of conducting a formal investigation.
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4880
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Nov. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4881
Email expressing the FBI's concerns with the DHS' draft plan, which the DHS presented to the DoD as a DHS/FBI plan. The author writes that they are notifying the Major General of their strenuous opposition to the interrogation plan, describing ...
Sept. 07, 2006
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael Gelles
Nov. 15, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2434
This memo is designed to inform and instruct members of the 1st Force Service Support Group on the collection and handling of Enemy Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and other Detainees. The memo includes the Geneva Convention and supporting ...
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2435
This memo is designed to inform and instruct members of the 1st Force Service Support Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force on the collection and handling of Enemy Prisoners of War, Civilian Internees and other Detainees. The memo includes the ...
May 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2436
DOD memo on the military’s on the need to be sensitive and aware of the importance of preserving good relations with the local Afghani population and joint military persons while operating in Afghanistan. It stresses the need to maintain good ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
David W. Barno
David W. Barno