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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June 25, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 564
These are emails between Navy NCIS investigators discussing the death of a detainee in Iraq and who will lead the investigation. The death involved a US Marine detachment and the question was if Army CID or Navy NCIS would lead. Army CID is lead ...
June 02, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 565
These emails are between Navy NCIS investigators tracking down a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler and follows-up to ask whether CID HQ came through with any information on the MWD who gave statement to Army CID but wasn’t implicated in any ...
Aug. 27, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 562
These emails are from an Army CID officer concerned about where to conduct an autopsy in the event a detainee dies in custody. The question was over transporting the body to the United States and what ramifications that might have. The email ...
Dec. 19, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 563
These emails are between Army CID and Navy NCIS investigators concerning the policy for reporting criminal investigations during contingency operations and specifically hostile fire deaths. The Army CID Investigator provides the Standard ...
June 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 559
Navy NCIS Middle East Field Office announces temporary deployment of special agents from Bahrain to Iraq because "case load is exploding, high visibility cases are on the rise." A later email attaches the latest case control summary for open Team ...
June 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 560

This is a List/Chart of fifteen (15) pending cases for NCIS Team Iraq as of June 14, 2004.

Dec. 02, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 561
These emails are between Army CID and Navy NCIS investigators concerning the policy for reporting criminal investigations during contingency operations and specifically hostile fire deaths. The Army CID Investigator provides the Standard ...
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 557
Secretary Rumsfeld's memo reiterates and clarifies procedures for investigating deaths of detainees in U.S. custody through reference to a series of previous directives. After a detainee dies, commanders must immediately report the death to the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
June 24, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 558
The Division Chief, Personal Crimes Department of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service discusses manpower needs at Guantanamo and Iraq and case theory behind investigations, and states "We've held off initiating any action pending the ...
June 21, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 556
Series of emails regarding procedures to follow regarding bodies of deceased detainee at Al-Taqaddum Air Base ("TQ"). NCIS emails instructs recipient to "try to find that body, we’ll exhume if possible." In response to resistance to exhumation ...