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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This is a CIA Routing Slip for the distribution of a October 25, 2005 letter from Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Ranking Member SASC, requesting a copy of the Inspector General report on its investigation of CIA personnel involvement in abuse of ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carl Levin
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Awad Hasan Munthir, a detainee who died in custody at Camp Bucca, Baghdad, Iraq. It is reported that Mr. Munthir was depressed and acting as a loner within the facility for several months. The ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Awad Hasan Munthir
Detainee reported that he was arrested after US forces found a weapon in his home. He was detained at Al Sijood Palace, Iraq, and it was during this detention he states he was hooded; flexicuffed; punched; kicked; yelled at; and threatened. ...
This is a CID investigation into the death of Yassin Mahmood Nasser. Mr. Nasser was a detainee at Baghdad Central Concentration facility (BCCF), Abu Ghraib, Iraq. While incarcerated Mr. Nasser became ill, and died as a result of complications ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Yassin Mahmood Nasser
Sworn statement of a Specialist (E4) who stated "I never told [redacted] that the MPs had told the MI soldiers that we could do anything we wanted with the detainees. I do know that some of the MI soldiers were allowed to select what exercise to ...

A cable sent from Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's Deputy Director for Operations, to a CIA "black site" authorizing the destruction of 92 videotapes of interrogations that took place in 2002.

Apr. 15, 2010
Cable
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
The document is a mostly redacted cover sheet followed by a CIRG after-action report for the FBI deployment to Quandahar, Afghanistan from 12/11/2001 through 02/11/2002 in support of the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) sponsored by the U.S. ...
Other
Robert S. Mueller
Letter from Marie A. O'Rourke, DOJ to Megan LewisU re: ACLU's FOIA Request; Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Nov. 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Marie A. O'Rourke
Marie A. O'Rourke
A detainee alleges he was burned with "hot gases" coming from a transport vehicle while he lay on his stomach in the back of the vehicle while being transported. Medical records revealed that the detainee suffered burn injuries which required ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Cramped confinement
This is the Autopsy Report & Death Certificate of Tahseen Qader, a detainee who died while in US custody. It is reported that Mr. Qader was found unresponsive, breathless and without a pulse. The Report states that the detainee was feeling ill ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Tahseen Qader