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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June 22, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1984
Relates to draft of Army Inspector General's (DAIG) report on detainee operations, which is to be reviewed by senior leadership. There is a report circulating that the email recipient needs to review and comment on.
June 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1985
Sets up meetings for Army senior leadership to be briefed on IG report on Tues, 29 June 2004.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Paul Mikolashek, Stanley E. Green
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1986
The email sets up a review of Major General Taguba's report.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Antonio Taguba
May 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1987
Attaches document entitled "grave v. simple breaches" (presumably of Geneva Conventions). Attached document not provided.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1988
List of photographs redacted in the document Production request re: ACLU v. DOD, No. 1:04-CV-4151 (S.D.N.Y.)
Dec. 18, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5005

Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.

Dec. 18, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Feb. 16, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 570

A document production cover letter from the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) in response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA). The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some ...

Oct. 08, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 571
This case involves two Marines posing for pictures with an Enemy Prisoner of War while they were guarding him. In the pictures, the two Marines are aiming their M-16 service rifles in close proximity at the EPW, who had recently received medical ...
Nov. 30, 2005
Investigative File (NCIS)
Other Humiliation
Aug. 19, 2005 | CSRT | ACLU-RDI 573

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant and is a member of or affiliated with Al Qaida and the Taliban. He was found to have traveled from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan via Syria ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Abdul Aziz Saad al Khaldi
Oct. 02, 2004 | CSRT | ACLU-RDI 574

Tribunal determined that the detainee in question has been accurately classified as an enemy combatant. He admitted that he was a driver for Usama Bin Laden and served as one of his armed bodyguards, though he claimed that such activity was ...

Nov. 30, 2005
CSRT
Salim Ahmed Hamdan
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