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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 2149
Deleted Page Information Sheet
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2150
Executive summary of the American Correctional Association's (ACA) visit to Guantanamo Bay.
June 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2151
Emails discuss the existence of new photos depicting detainee abuse. [Photos not included].
June 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2152
Email includes a report on the American Correctional Association's (ACA) visit to Guantanamo.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
June 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2153
Emails refer to graphs depicting information on detainees at various camps, including Camp Bucca and Abu Ghraib. [Graphs are not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder
June 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2154
Emails discuss leadership training.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, James R. Schlesinger
June 08, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2155
Daily update on Office of the Provost Marshall General's operations/activities.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, James R. Schlesinger
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2156
Email includes the daily update for the Office of the Provost Marshall General discussing their operations and Military Police guidelines.
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Stephen A. Cambone, Donald J. Ryder
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2157
Email includes an executive summary that discusses the need for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC) to assume responsibility over development of major DOD policies and plans related to ...
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2158
Emails discuss investigations surrounding the death of a detainee(s) in Bagram. Also, the original email seeks clarification on a paragraph that defines corporal punishment and sensory deprivation. [Contents redacted].