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 01, 1988 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 342
Army Pamphlet 360-512: Army Public Affairs Code of the U.S. Fighting Force. Obligation to oppose enemies, uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights and Ethical Guide.
Oct. 15, 1990 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 446
Army Field Manual No. 11-32: FM 11-32 Combat Net Radio Operations.
Apr. 16, 1991 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 326
Legal Guide for Soldiers: An introductory manual assisting soldiers in understanding legal obligations.
Apr. 16, 1991 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 340
Army Field manual 27-14: FM 27-14 Legal Guide for Soldiers
Dec. 31, 1992 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 345
Army Pamphlet 27-173: Legal Services Trial Procedure. Legal Services Manual.
Sept. 30, 1993 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 323
Regulations establishing responsibilities policies and procedures for direction, management & control of Army military working dog (MWD) program. Primary uses for MWD: Patrol dogs, Narcotics/Contraband detection, Explosives detection. Other ...
Jan. 03, 1994 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6415
This document is a memo from the Director of the FBI providing guidelines on the disciplinary process within the FBI. He expresses his hope to draw a "bright line" is order to keep all employees aware of his expectations and sets out his vision ...
Jan. 11, 1994 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 405

Army Regulation 638-2: DA PAM 385-40 Army Accident Investigation and Reporting

Aug. 18, 1994 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 354
Department of Defense Directive: Program for Enemy Prisoners of War and Other Detainees. Reissues reference to update policy for a program to ensure implementation of the international law of war, both customary and codified, about EPOW, to ...
Sept. 29, 1994 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 365
Manual outlining the effects of combat stress and assigning responsibility to officers and medical health personnel for controlling combat stress. Notes that killing or torturing enemy prisoners may be a manifestation of combat stress, but that ...