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. 30, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5104
CIA copy of a New Yorker article tracing the responsibility for American soldiers brutalizing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez, Antonio Taguba, Ivan L. Frederick, II, Charles A. Graner, Jr., Javal Sean Davis, Megan M. Ambuhl, Sabrina D. Harman, Jeremy C. Sivits, Lynndie Rana England, Joseph M. Darby, Scott Bobeck, Jerry Phillabaum, Donald J. Ryder, Jason Kennel, Thomas Pappas, Steven Jordan, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ricardo Sanchez
EIT, Use of water, Water dousing, Other, Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap, Stomach/abdominal slap, Sexual, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
CIA | ACLU-RDI 5106
CIA schedule of briefings to congressional oversight committees on Iraqi prisoner abuse. Lists date and time of briefing, committee addressed, members involved, and liason officer presenting.
May 12, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5107
CIA non-legal memorandum detailing an attempt to reach a person, whose name is redacted, by telephone on May 12, 2004.
May 11, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5105
CIA copy of Washington Post article discussing prisons in Iraq, the CIA's interrogations, and the use of torture and rendition.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Alberto R. Gonzales, John McLaughlin, Larry Thompson, George J. Tenet
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al Shibh, Abu Zubaydah, Muhammad Saad Iqbal, Maher Arar
EIT, Sleep deprivation
Nov. 06, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5092
CIA copy of Colorado Springs Gazette article concerning the 1st Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's economic assistance efforts in an Iraqi combat zone.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Mario Franco, Dan Ruecking, Mario Vasquez, Chris Bandel, Stephen Moore
Nov. 09, 2003 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5093
CIA copy of a Chicago Tribune article detailing industrial shortages and Army investments in the Al Anbar province.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Keith Mines, Greg Reilly
June 26, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5094
CIA copy of a transcript of George W. Bush's speech on the U.N. International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, emphasizing the conviction that "Torture is wrong no matter where it occurs" and that the United States must lead the fight to ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
George W. Bush
June 28, 2004 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 5097
CIA-OGC memo indicating that [Redacted] of the OGC initiated contact with the prosecutor in Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
June 28, 2004 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 5098
CIA-OGC memo indicating that [Redacted] of the OGC initiated contact with the prosecutor in Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
June 07, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5096
CIA copy of a London Times article describing a woman in Baghdad that learned of her husband Munadel al-Jumeili's death at Abu Ghraib only when a TV program ran an image of him in a story on abuse at that facility. The article explains ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Manadel Al-Jamadi