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 2241
Document discusses the various plans of the Department of the Army. It states that the Department will assist Army Central Command (ARCENT) in developing and coordinating an integrated, multi-disciplined detainee operations assessment/assistance ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2242
[Document completely redacted].
Feb. 15, 2006
Notes
Donald J. Ryder
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2243
Document summarizes and lists the recommendations made in the Jones-Fay Report. Included in the memo is a request for further investigation into CID case 0216-03-CID259-61211, an alleged sexual assault of a female detainee.
Feb. 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Use of phobias
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2244
PowerPoint presentation entitled "Draft Army Detainee Operations and Detainee-Interrogation Operations Integration Plan." The slides include graphs and plans to improve the Army's detainee interrogation strategies, overall detainee operations and ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2245
DOD PowerPoint presentation on DOD enemy prisoner of war detainee program. The presentation provides an outline of the DOD's objectives policies with respect to the EPOW detainee program.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2246
Chart shows the ebb and flow of media coverage on detainee abuse since January 2004.
Feb. 15, 2006
Chart/List
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Lynndie Rana England, Charles H. Jacoby, David W. Barno, Richard P. Formica, James R. Schlesinger, Albert T. Church, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern, Antonio Taguba
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2247
Email refers to nine attachments. [Documents not included].
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Carol A. Haave
May 25, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2248
Emails discuss notes from a Technical Integration Group Engaged in Research (TIGER) Team meeting. The email mentions that Lieutenant Kieth Alexander thinks there may be a pattern between critical events and abuses (e.g. riots-abuses; ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Email
Donald J. Ryder, Keith B. Alexander, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James A. Coggin, Antonio Taguba, James R. Schlesinger, Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, George W. Casey, Jr.
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2249
Email includes PowerPoint slide of overall detainee deaths, the deaths are categorized according to whether the detainee died on or off a facility and the manner of their death.
Sept. 16, 2005 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2250
Criminal Investigation Command (CID) report into allegations of assault, cruelty and maltreatment of a detainee by guards at Abu Ghraib. Among the detainee's allegations, he stated that a US Army Sergeant hung him by his arms from the bars of a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Donald J. Ryder, Thom Jones
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity, Other