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 21, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5099
CIA copy of RFE/RL report compiled by Kathleen Ridolfo listing descriptions of various armed groups in Iraq.
June 21, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5100
CIA copy of RFE/RL report compiled by Kathleen Ridolfo listing descriptions of various political groups and parties in Iraq.
Oct. 23, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5064
CIA copy of a Colorado Springs Gazette article about the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's operations in Iraq.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Tamarra Ramos, Karol Spencer, Benjamin Freeman, Brian Kleager
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5090
Medline Plus entry for "Myoglobin - serum."
Oct. 26, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5085
CIA copy of Chicago Tribune article detailing the running standoff between U.S. and Iraqi forces at the police station in Husaybah, Iraq's "Alamo."
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Steve Smith, Greg Reilly
Oct. 29, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5089
CIA copy of Asia Times Online article describing the preparation and execution of an Army "Tiger Strike," named "Operation Decapitation," led by Lieutenant-Colonel Gregg Reilly and intended "to pursue those Iraqis attacking [Reilly's] soldiers ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Greg Reilly, Justin Brown, Fred Denning
Jan. 29, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5074

This letter from CIA Director George Tenet to Pat Roberts, Chairman of the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence, alerts Roberts of the enclosed CIA Inspector General's memo on the death of Iraqi detainee Manadal Al-Jamaidi.

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George Tenet
Charles Patrick "Pat" Roberts
George J. Tenet, Pat Roberts, John D. Rockefeller, IV
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Dec. 08, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5108

CIA copy of U.S. News & World Report article discussing the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's Operation Rifle Blitz, which was carried out to fight Iraqi resistance in Husaybah, Karabilah, and Sadah.

Mar. 15, 2013
Other
David Teeples, Greg Reilly
May 18, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 3311

CIA press release States that May 2004 New Yorker story on a "DOD/CIA program to abuse and humiliate Iraqi prisoners" is "fundamentally wrong" and that spokesman has no awareness of CIA officials who could have confirmed ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Other
Bill Harlow
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5037
CIA copies of various Fourth Geneva Convention articles, including Article 147 (Grave Breaches), Article 49 (Deportations, Transfers, and Evacuations), Article 5 (Derogations), Article 68 (Penal Legislation), Article 78 (Security Measures, ...