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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Apr. 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2669
Sworn statement of a soldier who describes the captured of a detainee on 04/04/2004. A Vapor Trace 2 test showed a "high exposure reading of RDX explosive. The soldier also mentions that the detainee was helping the resistance with supplies for ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2670
Formica Report Annexes 191 through 192: Deleted Page Information Sheet
July 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2671
This sworn statement is from an intake soldier, unidentified here, wherein he gives a brief discussion of medical screening and intake for the 1st Calvary Division Interrogation Facility. The soldier states that "Detainees that have come to us ...
July 02, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2672
Statement is by an interrogator with the 312th Military Intelligence Battalion, The interrogator states "I have witnessed numerous problems with detainees dropped off. Their paperwork is cryptic in as much as they rarely put the detainee's name ...
May 25, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2673
Statement of screener at Abu Ghraib with CACI, III Corps 504th Military Intelligence Brigade, 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion. "During the period from around Nov '03 to Jan '04, I recognized that a number of detainees brought to Abu Ghraib ...
May 15, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2674
Fragmentary Order 801 marking the activation of the Multinational Forces Iraq under command of General Ricardo S Sanchez and Lieutenant General Thomas F Metz. At the handover of power to the Interim Iraqi Govrnment on 06/20/2004, "the dynamic of ...
June 30, 2006
Other
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas F. Metz
June 23, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2675
This letter is a response to General Formica per his request for certain documents related to the training of non-commissioned officers in handling enemy combatants and interrogation of Enemy Prisoners of War (EPWs). The response informs General ...
June 30, 2006
Letter
Richard P. Formica
Richard P. Formica
July 15, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2676
Email. Contents redacted.
Aug. 02, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2677
Statement of Commander of unit that did not have a detention facility but that conducted tactical battlefield interrogations immediately after detaining individuals. States that guidance about detainee treatment was clear. Mentions Gen. ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Ricardo Sanchez
Jan. 09, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2678
Cable issued to ensure that all civilian internees and enemy prisoners of War (POWs) are properly processed and treated humanely. The cable states that some capturing units may not be able to detain those captured and that some ...