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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Feb. 20, 2004 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5075

This memo refers to the CIA Office of Inspector General's investigation into the "facts and circumstances surrounding the death in U.S. custody of Iraqi detainee Manadal Al-Jamaidi. Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Mona B. ...

Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Mona B. Alderson
Christopher A. Wray | Bruce Swartz
Mona B. Alderson, Christopher A. Wray, Bruce Swartz, Barry Sabin
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Mar. 21, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 5048
An OLC memo analyzing the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War ("GC"). The memo provides three opinions. Part I concludes that "GC governs the occupation of Iraq." Part II discusses GC's general ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Legal Memo
Jack Goldsmith
Scott Muller
William J. Haynes, II, Scott W. Muller, Jack L. Goldsmith, Alberto R. Gonzales
May 08, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5046
In this letter dated May 6, 2004, Human Rights Watch "calls, first, for the U.S. government to reveal all places of detention where security or terrorist suspects are being held on whatever grounds, and second, for it to permit independent, ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Letter
Kenneth Roth
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld, George J. Tenet
Mar. 04, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 5050

A redacted March 4, 2004 non-legal memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). This paper "responds to an OSD request" seeking to enumerate the implications of releasing ...

Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Richard Butler
Amir Hamudi Hasan Al-Sadi
May 07, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5066

This article describes the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, focusing on the photographed bodies of deceased detainees. It describes the CIA Inspector General's and DOJ's investigations into the possibility that the Abu ...

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Antonio Taguba, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Fazel Akbar
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Abdul Wali
Physical assault, Other Humiliation
May 10, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5067

This articles describes the arrest, detainment, and interrogation of Abid Mahawish's four sons (Husam, Arkan, Qusay, Mohammed) in Iraq. The youngest brother, Mohammed, was subjected to a mock execution.

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Abed Hamed Mowhoush, Husam Mahawish, Arkan Mahawish, Qusay Mahawish, Mohammed Mahawish
Jan. 29, 2004 | CIA-OIG | ACLU-RDI 5073

This memo from the CIA's Inspector General, John L. Helgerson, notifies members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives of investigations into the deaths of Manadal al-Jamaidi and Avid Hamad Mahawish Al-Malalawi in Iraq.

Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
John L. Helgerson
Pat Murray | Suzanne Spalding | Bill Dunkhe | Chris Mellon | Jerry Lewis | Ted Stevens
John L. Helgerson, Pat Murray, Suzanne Spalding, Bill Duhnke, Chris Mellon, Jerry Lewis, Ted Stevens
Manadel Al-Jamadi, Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Feb. 26, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5076
This Powerpoint presentation describes U.S. strategies for "assist[ing] Iraqis in beginning investigations and prosecutions of selected major crimes by Saddam Hussein and key members of his regime" and "aid[ing] in establishing Iraqi Special ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Robert G. Ulrich
Sept. 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 6824
This series of letters contains the original inquiry from Macbeth Bertrand Henry, President of the Commission on Children's Rights about juvenile detainees in Guantanamo Bay prison. The response letter from Pierre-Richard Prosper asserts that ...
May 15, 2012
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Macbeth Bertrand-Henry
June 25, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 6438
This document is a FBI Situation Report for FBI Detachment in Afghanistan (6/25/04). It contains logistical information about FBI presence as well as detainee information, summaries of detainee interviews, and updates about FBI missions ...