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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Dec. 14, 2004 | WH | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5828
CIA Routing Slip re: Memo from Gregory L. Schulte, of the National Security Counsel, regarding the agenda and discussion paper for the December 16, 2004 Principles Committee Meeting on Detainees. The meeting will be held 10:30-11:30 in the White ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Gregory L. Schulte
Jan. 14, 2005 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5825
This is a letter from the Acting CIA Assistant Inspector General for Investigations to a doctor for potentially retaining them as a medical expert in the upcoming trial of David Anthony Passaro. Mr. Passaro was a CIA contractor charged with four ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Letter
David Anthony Passaro, David A. Passaro
Oct. 24, 2005 | CIA | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 5829
This is a CIA Routing Slip for the distribution of a October 25, 2005 letter from Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Ranking Member SASC, requesting a copy of the Inspector General report on its investigation of CIA personnel involvement in abuse of ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Carl Levin
Nov. 02, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5826
This is a letter from CIA Assistant Inspector General for Investigations (name redacted) to Assistant U.S. Attorney James Candelmo, Eastern District of North Carolina, dated November 4, 2004. The letter is a response to AUSA Candelmo's request ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Letter
David Anthony Passaro, James A. Candelmo
Aug. 18, 2004 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 5827
This is a CIA Routing Slip with a fifteen (15) page memorandum attached. The Memo is fully redacted. The memo is from Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, "regarding [redacted] Letters on Detainees". There ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Condoleeza Rice
May 04, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6369
This document is an email to the FBI asking for help with a project at GTMO. The project is the build town homes with "culturally correct" decor to reward detainees who are highly cooperative. The email also states that Intel Officer Lt. Col. ...
NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5775
This is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Iraqi detainee, Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Dec. 01, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5719
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah
Physical assault
Dec. 22, 2007 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5779
TThis is an NCIS investigation of the death of an Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani, Iraqi detainee who died in the custody of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) on December 22, 2007 while being transported from Combat Outpost (COP) Manion to the ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (NCIS), Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Thair Hamid Khalaf Hassan Alwani
Physical assault
Sept. 21, 2005 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 5723
This is an NCIS investigation in to the shooting death of detainee Haskem Shefi Abdullah at the Entry Control Point 5 (ECP-5) on September 20, 2005 while being guarded. The Report states that as a US Marine was guarding Mr. Abdullah, and while ...
Jan. 21, 2011
Investigative File (NCIS), Notes, Photograph, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Haskem Shefi Abdullah