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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Aug. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4497
State Department email from Nicholas Miscione concerning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) request to visit the detainees held in Afghanistan. No attachment included.
Aug. 09, 2005
Email
Nicholas M. Miscione
Margaret J. Pollack | Richard L. Greene | Joyce E. Leader | Douglas Kelly
Nicholas M. Miscione, Richard L. Greene, Margaret J. Pollack
July 25, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4498
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.
Aug. 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
July 25, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4499
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.
Aug. 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 06, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1408
The Department of the Army Memo explains that exhibits 19-25 are copies since originals were never received (likely lost or destroyed when convoys were hit by explosives).
July 01, 2003 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1409
CID report of investigation into the circumstances leading to a detainee entering a vegetative/comatose state. The report states that the detainee was apprehended on July 23, 2003 as a high priority target, and that he was detained in Kirkuk and ...
July 30, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Sadiq Zoman
Other
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1429
Army handwritten notes; mostly redacted or poorly photocopied and mostly illegible.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 1430
This transcript is a continuation of a previously initiated interview with an Army Sergeant on the processing and handling of detainees. The Sgt describes his duties and the process of taking in detainees and how they were/are categorized. The ...
May 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1431
Interview of a LT. Col. who is a medical doctor on the handling of wounded/medical needs detainees. The doctor also related his personal experience at Abu Ghraib when the riot broke out and his experience with the 530th Military Police Battalion. ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1432
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees, training before deployment and Rules of Engagement. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse ...
Mar. 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1433
DoD Questionnaire: Questions for soldiers concerning their observations and experience in dealing with detainees. The questionnaire appears to be in response to the accusations of detainee abuse and an effort to elicit information on the matter.