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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Jan. 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 938
The email is an assessment and review of the necessary training and assets in order to handle detainees in the wake of the Inspector General's report on detainee treatment. Gen. Cody states "as we know we’ve will be doing these missions for a ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Email
James J. Lovelace
James A. Coggin
James J. Lovelace , James A. Coggin, Richard A. Cody, Paul Mikolashek, Michael J. Marchand, Fred Robinson, Jr., Donald J. Ryder, Stephen J. Curry, Robert W. Chesnut , Bruce E. Davis
Jan. 09, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 172
Email containing an executive summary of CID investigation into allegations that a soldier threatened a detainee with a gun, fired the gun on the ground next to the detainee, and "butt-stroked" the detainee during a "knock-and-search" operation ...
Apr. 05, 2005
Investigative File (CID), Email
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death