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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Feb. 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2512
Email references September 2003 Sanchez memo on "CJTF-7 Interrogation and Counter-Resistance Policy" and asks for a signed copy of the "current policy". The email states "You're listed as the POC on Interrogation end Counter-Resistance Policy ...
May 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2514

Sign-in sheet for a Temporary Holding Facility (THF) stating that the undersigned "have read and understand the THF and Policy Memorandum and will enforce the Policy and SOP'S during [their] duty shift at the THF." States that ...

Mar. 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2515
Heavily redacted document establishing interrogation and counter-resistance policy during the interrogation of all detainees and enemy prisoners of war (EPWs). States that "interrogations performed at Tactical Interrogation Center require ...
May 31, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2518
List of detainees summaries in reverse chronological including name, date captured, capturing unit, where detained, departure date, and remarks. All information redacted except for some dates of capture, some remarks, a few descriptions under the ...
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2519
Memo from Headquarters, Combined/Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP), Office of the Commander. Addressed to Brigadier General [redacted]. Contents are almost entirely redacted, but include the headings "Detention ...
June 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2521
Memo addressing reporting requirements from 24 August, 2003 until 10 June, 2004. Refers to 24 August, 2003 directive to "all coalition brigades or equivalent to report all captures within 48 hours to the 800th MP BDE." As of January 2006, the ...
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2522
Sets out requirements and time frames for transfer of detainees for detainee operations from August 24, 2003 to date of memo, June 23, 2004. States that "high value detainees are taken to Camp Cropper, where they are inducted into DRS [possibly ...
May 28, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2523
Discusses a meeting that took place regarding an AR 15-6 investigation concerning incidents of detainee abuse at Radwaniya Palace, Iraq. Topics of discussion included: "four investigation files into significant incidents" at THFs, including two ...
May 20, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2524
CID Report regarding allegations by 2 detainees at Camp Cooke of aggravated assault and prisoner mistreatment between April 23, 2004 and May 8, 2004. One detainee alleged that he was "coerced into a confession through beatings by the FPS ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2525
Memo regarding interviews conducted at the DCCP (Displaced Civilian Collection Point) on May 31, 2004. Detainee claims that "while at an unknown location he received no food or water and could not sleep due to very loud American music blaring the ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Cramped confinement, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound