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 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1992
This is a collection of information related to detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib and the role of the reserve component of the Army.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
James R. Helmly
Sept. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1994
Army Newpaper The Call: Issue September - October 2002
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1995
Report with observations and assessment of operations at detainee collection points in Afghanistan. This is Chapter 3: Operational Intelligence; Topic D: Collection.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1996
Report with observations and assessment of operations at detainee collection points in Afghanistan. This is Chapter 9: Public Affairs; Topic A: Providing Public Affairs.
May 31, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1998
These are notes and observations on Operation Iraqi Freedom from the JRTC Fire Support team while in the CENTCOM AOR during OPERATIONS Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom from May 31 - June 13, 2003.
Mar. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1999
Army Newspaper: Military Review Atricle re: Military Commissions, Past and Future written by Lieutenant Colon.el Jody Prescott, U.S. Army, and Major Joanne Eldridge, U.S. Army Reserve.
Aug. 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2000
Army Public Affairs memo on how to address the public release of the Jones-Fay report on the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The memo states that all questions or "queries specific to the findings of the report, and requests to interview the ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern, Anthony R. Jones
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2001
Army Presentation re: Geneva and Hague Convention PowerPoint Presentation Briefing for the 427th Support Battalion.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2002
Army Memo on the Current Prison Investigations list of seven investigations into allegations of abuse at Guantanamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, Army Reserve: Training, and Worldwide.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ricardo Sanchez, Antonio Taguba, George R. Fay, James R. Helmly
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2003
A deleted-page information sheet from the DOD in response to the ACLU's FOIA request. The DOD notes that bates pages 244-267 and pages 276-281 are non-responsive and have been removed from this submission (Mounted Brigade Combat Team TACSOP).