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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July 29, 2009 | OPR | ACLU-RDI 5021

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Five months after releasing this report to the ACLU, the government released slightly less redacted versions of 7 pages in the report.  You can view those 7 pages, ...

Dec. 22, 2008 | OPR | ACLU-RDI 5023

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This is the first draft of the OPR's report. You can view the final report by selecting the appropriate related link to the right.

Mar. 04, 2009 | OPR | ACLU-RDI 5024

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This is the second draft of the OPR's report. You can view the final report by selecting the appropriate related link to the right.
 

Jan. 05, 2010 | OPR | ACLU-RDI 5025

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Feb. 19, 2010
Oversight Report
David Margolis