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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Nov. 29, 2004 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 5874
This email contains a letter from Marilyn A. Dorn, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), General Counsel's Office (GC), concerning four (4) legal cases: 1) United States v. CW3 Welshofer; 2) United States v. CW2 Williams; 3) United States v. SPC ...
Email, Letter
Marilyn A. Dorn
Marilyn A. Dorn
July 16, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 56
Emails relating to an investigation into allegations of abuse of two Ukranian individuals detained in Abu Ghraib. The detainees were caught attempting to illegally smuggle oil and were sentenced to ten years in jail by the Iraqi court system ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Email
Jacqueline J. Scott
Physical assault, Other
May 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 545
These are emails between Navy NCIS and Army CID investigators concerning a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler assigned to Abu Ghraib prison. The CID investigator is advising that NCIS contact HQ and interview the MWD handler because he gave ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 13, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 546
These emails are an attempt by the Navy NCIS investigator contacting the Army CID Head Quarters in order to track down the Navy personnel with Military Working Dog (MWD) duties who served at Abu Ghraib prison. In addition, the investigator is ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 13, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 547
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel following-up on a request that they provide information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements the Navy personnel may have ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 548
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel requesting that they provide any information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements they may have made to Army CID. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
William J.Kimbro
May 14, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 549
This email is from Army CID Headquarters to Army CID personnel following-up on a request that they provide information on Navy Military Working Dog (WMD) handlers involved at Abu Ghraib prison, including any statements the Navy personnel may have ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Antonio Taguba
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 ...
May 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 317
Email with attachments of policies and procedures on handling detainees and interrogations once an individual is in US custody, specifically in Iraq. This document is as a result of the investigation in to detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to ...
Dec. 31, 2004
Email
Lowell Jacoby
Lowell Jacoby
June 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 904
Email from [redacted] to Al in Intelligence and Security Command. The first message reads: "Al, Here is [redacted] info for his file." Includes a forwarded message that reads: "I have contacted [redacted] civilian defense counsel, for ...