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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Aug. 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1848
Email requests guidance on whether the capture and detainment of juveniles is permissible.
Apr. 23, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1849
Email requests information on detainees detained beyond the "14-day rule."
Aug. 07, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1850

An email chain following up on the CID's interview of a detainee.  Two CID reports are mentioned: 0093-04-C1D389-80674 and 0068-04-CID389-80663.

Aug. 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1851
Email discusses and includes the "Commander's Conference Update" on detainee operations in Iraq. Includes power point presentation.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
George W. Casey, Jr., Carter F. Ham, Peter W. Chiarelli, John R. Batiste
May 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1852
Email provides recipients with an updated strategy on detainee operations following the Army's discovery of detainee abuse. Original email/update is from Major General Geoffrey Miller.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas F. Metz
Apr. 22, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1853
Emails discuss the processing of detainees, there are concerns raised regarding a new detainee parole concept.
June 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1854
Emails discuss female detainees in custody.
May 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1855
Email reports on MG Miller's visit to their facility.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Geoffrey D. Miller
Jan. 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1856
Email includes a memo from the Provost Marshall, Donald J. Ryder, that provides guidance for handling detainees at multinational maneuver battalion (MNB-N) detainee collection points.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Donald J. Ryder
Aug. 20, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1857
Memo details a complaint made by a Private First Class (PFC), alleging that his unit members engaged in unlawful behavior. The PFC first alleged that while on patrol his platoon sergeant, a Sergeant First Class, ordered soldiers to fire upon ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other