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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| ACLU-RDI
| ACLU-RDI
July 13, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 412

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
| ACLU-RDI 413

This document is the Claim for Compensation; documents in support of the claim; and correspondence from the Army Claim Service concerning a claim by an Iraqi/Swedish citizen for compensation for his alleged torture and other mistreatment ...

Feb. 28, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Letter, Photograph
Antonio Taguba
Use of water, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Apr. 30, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 425

Letter from Detainee's counsel to Army Claims Service for alleged abuse, torture and other mistreatment by U.S. Army in Iraq. The attorney is making the claim under the Military Claimns ack and seeks compensation in excess of $100,000.00. The ...

Feb. 28, 2005
Legal Memo, Letter
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Assault/death, Rendition, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Isolation, Threat
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3882
Request to Col. James Whitmore-DOD for redacted group to visit detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Whitney Baird
James A. Whitmore
James A. Whitmore
July 14, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3017

FBI letter from T. J. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI to Gen. Ryder Major General US Army Criminal Investigation Command describing three (3) situations observed by FBI agents of highly aggressive interrogation techniques/assault ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Thomas J. Harrington
Donald J. Ryder
Thomas J. Harrington, Donald J. Ryder, Marion E. Bowman, Robert L. Dietz, Daniel Dell'Orto
Physical assault, Sexual, Threat, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
Jan. 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 241
Letters from General Karpinski suspending members of the 800th MP Brigade. Names of suspended individuals are redacted.
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Letter
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Nov. 29, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 251
Reprimands for members of the 800th Military Police Battalion for violations and infractions of violations and unprofessional conduct. The reprimands include an officer having inappropriate relationships with junior female soldiers; a soldier ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Letter
David D. McKiernan
David D. McKiernan, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Jan. 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 309
This is a memo of admonishment for Gen. Karpinski's service record file. It pertains to her leadership and command of the Military Police activities and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Letter
Ricardo Sanchez
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez