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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Mar. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2613
AR 15-6 investigation regarding allegations of abuse by two detainees. Memos appointing the AR 15-6 investigating officer request that the officer find out whether detainees were taken from the facility, and if so, by whom. First detainee, who ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2614
Fully withheld under FOIA Exemption 1
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2619

Contents Redacted Under FOIA Exemption

June 30, 2006
Other
Richard P. Formica
May 27, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2644
Recommendation from an official of the Detention Review Authority regarding the status of a detainee. Classifies detainee as a "security detainee" and orders that the detainee be interned, based on information that detainee may have "participated ...
DOA | ACLU-RDI 2665

Contents completely redacted.

June 30, 2006
Other
Richard P. Formica
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
Dec. 16, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2683
List of soldiers assigned to duty of Detainee Guard times with emails attached discussing the shift assignements.
Oct. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2694
This Memo For The record is a condensed notation of an interview conducted of CACI Interrogator/Screener who was at Abu Ghraib prison on October 4, 2004. This interview was during the course of a 15-6 investigation relating to allegations of ...
June 30, 2006
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement)
Abdullah Yahia Yousf al Shabli
Oct. 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2699
Statement of Civilian Contractor (CACI), Interrogator who stated he was present during the in-processing of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison when detainees were medically screened as they first came in. Does not recall any abuse. The copy is ...
Sept. 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 4786
Sworn statement by a Iraqi national who became a detainee at Abu Ghraib with member of his family. He claims that his brother was with the Saddam regime and when he went to visit his sister in Iraq he was taken in to custody as a detainee and ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Family/others, Use of phobias, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling