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
DOA | ACLU-RDI 382
This memo provides an up-date on the status of seven (7) investigations in to detainee abuse. No author, date or agency is cited.
Jan. 31, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Ricardo Sanchez, Antonio Taguba, George R. Fay, James R. Helmly
DOA | ACLU-RDI 383
This is an operations guide for the Mounted Brigade Combat Team TACSOP. It covers their standard operating procedures and order of operations. It is undated.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 384
This single page document is a list of maximum period of time to detain an Iraqi civilian for minor offenses. The document is undated.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 385
This is an Army PowerPoint Presentation on the use of interview techniques to be used by Military Police investigators.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 386
This is a memo describing how to handle detainees. It covers the way detainees are to be addressed, how they are to be handled, how to assess detainees and includes a "COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY FORCES APPREHENSION FORM" to be completed by ...
| ACLU-RDI 413

This document is the Claim for Compensation; documents in support of the claim; and correspondence from the Army Claim Service concerning a claim by an Iraqi/Swedish citizen for compensation for his alleged torture and other mistreatment ...

Feb. 28, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Letter, Photograph
Antonio Taguba
Use of water, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of electricity, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
DOA | ACLU-RDI 434
Letter to mother of claimant conceding that "US forces were negligent in shooting your son" and improperly detaining him. Offers settlement of $1,000.00 for all claims against the US for the incident. The admission of a wrongful shooting and ...
Feb. 28, 2005
Letter
Physical assault, General, Other
DOA | ACLU-RDI 435
Army Receipt of Payment for Claim re: Settlement for Wrongly Shooting and Detaining and Iraqi Citizen. This is related to ACLU RDI 434; 435; 436; 437; & 4865.
| ACLU-RDI 441
Mission Training Plan Headquarters, Division Support Command (DISCOM) Digitized Division.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 447
Army Medical Health Record Form: Chronological Record of Medical Care. Blank.