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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May 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1194
Instructions about message and direction of media queries concerning Abu Ghraib abuse. the emails states "[It is] strongly recommend that any responses to queries regarding MP training of any sort should be answered strictly generically and ...
May 16, 2005
Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski, James R. Helmly, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt
May 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1195
Department of Defense talking points on Abu Ghraib detainee abuse which highlight how abuse is fundamentally against American military standards, how the majority of U.S. soldiers conduct themselves honorably, and how the abuse will be ...
May 16, 2005
Email
Peter Pace, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, George W. Casey, Jr., Geoffrey D. Miller, John P. Abizaid
May 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1199
Army email on Abu Ghraib prison abuse media queries and where and to whom such inquiries should be directed
May 16, 2005
Email
Janis Leigh Karpinski, James R. Helmly, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt
May 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1202
Army public affairs officer discusses a press briefing where the detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison and AR 15-6 reports being leaked to the press. Outlines questions anticipated based around the leaked Executive Summary.
May 16, 2005
Email
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Peter Pace
Aug. 31, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 467

An email between members of the Staff Judge Advocate, forwarding a Washington Post article titled "Documents Helped Sow Abuse, Army Report Finds," from August 30, 2004.

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Ricardo Sanchez, Paul J. Kern, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Alberto Mora, Geoffrey D. Miller, George W. Bush, John P. Abizaid, George R. Fay, Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Religious