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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CID | ACLU-RDI 6

USACIDC Documents Ready for Release to the ACLU: Specifies pages withheld from 24 CID documents (Gibbons stamped CID000003-001508), including photographs of US soldiers and "deceased foreign nationals" that are not in the public ...

CID | ACLU-RDI 93
First 18 pages of CID Report are missing; details are indiscernible. This document contains hand-written confessions, written in English, regarding IED attacks against U.S. soldiers, and one page out of a three page statement by a U.S. officer, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, John Peterson
DIA | ACLU-RDI 177
A Vaughn index of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents produced alongside a FOIA production released on November 8th, 2004. The index lists the documents withheld by government and an explanation for their withholding.
DIA | ACLU-RDI 179
Defense Intelligence Agency PowerPoint presentation on guidelines for JITF-CT contract personnel when coming in to contact with detainees. This presentation discusses prohibited and acceptable types of interaction with detainees.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 199
This DOD memo asks the recipient to review the attached draft implementing guidance developed to support approved policy on release or transfer of detainees.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 204
This list is of nineteen (19) documents, dated from 7/1/03 - 5/24/04. Includes policies/procedures, briefing and guidance, memos, and e-mails produced. It appears that this is part of a larger document production.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 206

A list of the 106 annexes to the Taguba Report.

Oct. 19, 2004
Chart/List
Antonio Taguba, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas
DOA | ACLU-RDI 209

This report reflects the findings of an investigation, led by Major General Antonio Taguba, into the allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. The investigation took place in February of 2004 and concluded that numerous instances of ...

Oct. 19, 2004
Oversight Report, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Antonio Taguba
Antonio Taguba, Ricardo Sanchez, R. Steven Whitcomb, David D. McKiernan, Kinard J. La Fate, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder
ISN 151365, ISN 13077, ISN 151108, ISN 152307, ISN 150542, ISN 150422, ISN 150425, ISN 152529, ISN 7787, ISN 150427, ISN 151362, ISN 18470
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
DOA | ACLU-RDI 210
This First Annex to Major General Antonio M. Taguba's Report in to the allegations of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison focuses on the psychological factors contributing to the abuse of detainees at the prison. The assessment cites a number of ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
DOA | ACLU-RDI 227

Report on the Escape of Prisoners on Jan 26, 2004 from Camp Bucca conducted by the 310th Military Police Battalion.

Oct. 19, 2004
Other
Antonio Taguba