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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A letter written in response to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request relating to the Office of Inspector General's investigation into the interrogation of detainees. The letter notifies Mr. Jaffeer that the U.S. Army Criminal ...
This document is a Department of Defense (DOD) Memo discussing a request for a copy of the Death Certificate of a detainee, ISN#: 329938, who died at Camp Bucca, Iraq on July 23, 2009. The request was approved.
This is a CID investigation into the reported death of two (2) Iraqi men in February 2005. The men, Jasim Mohammed Shihab and Ahmed Jasim Radhi were supposedly killed by US soldiers. investigation was begun more than a year after the deaths of ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Email, Letter, Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate, Physical (non-death)), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault
This is a CID investigation into the death of Zaidan Kalaf Hassan, an Iraqi civilian who was shot during a search of his residence. It is reported that after the members of "A" Company, 1-8 Infantry breached the outer gates of Mr. Hassan's ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Legal Memo, Chart/List, Investigative File (CID), Letter, Notes, Photograph, Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate), Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), Judicial (Affidavit/Declaration)
Zaidan Kalaf Hassan
Physical assault
This is a CID report in to the death of detainee Rashid Salman Mohammad Al Ghurairi while being transported following his arrest at his home near Kalsu, Iraq on November 13, 2005. It is reported that Mr. Al Ghurairi suffered an apparent cardiac ...

Document is a photocopy of an envelope and compact disk with notation on the CD stating “ACLU Army; 7-15-05 Release. No other details provided.

This letter is for the Army officials who will be fielding questions regarding the allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. The letter is a set of talking points and policy statements that focus on the theme that "the Army is committed ...
Jan. 31, 2005
Letter
Ricardo Sanchez, Paul J. Kern, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay
This letter from the Staff Judge Advocate located at Command Joint Task Force Seven concerns a detainee being interned for "Participating in attacks on the coalition forces" is a form letter. The detainee's name is redacted. He is being interned ...
CIA copy of a DOA letter addressed to the CIA's Office of General Counsel. In the letter Captain Christopher Graveline, Judge Advocate, states that he has been appointed trial counsel for the prosecution of five individuals in relation to ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Letter
Christopher Graveline | Captain | Judge Advocate
Christopher Graveline

This letter pertains to an Iraqi colonel's claim that he suffered injuries when in U.S. custody on a U.S. Navy ship and at Camp Bucca, Iraq.  Specifically, he claims that while being processed on the ship for detention, he fell and was ...

Feb. 28, 2005
Letter
Physical assault, General