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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May 24, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 903
Interviewee was assigned to AG from October 1, 2003 to February 6, 2004 and was responsible for the 'care and feeding' of the soldiers. Interviewee recalled hearing about three soldiers receiving Article 15s for an unauthorized interrogation of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Other Humiliation
June 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 906
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee recalled witnessing two incidents. In the first incident, the detainee was being interrogated, and at one point [redacted] told the detainee to roll down his jumpsuit and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Threat, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 907
Interviewee was assigned to AG in October 2003 as a member of the Tiger Team. Interviewee recalled an interrogation where a member of the interrogation team was among those attacked/injured in an earlier mortar attack believed to be perpetrated ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, George R. Fay
Physical assault, General, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 19, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 358

Transcript of the testimony of Gen. John Abizaid (commander, U.S. Central Command), Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (commander, Multinational Force-Iraq), and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller (deputy commander for detainee operations, Multinational Force) ...

Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
John Warner, John McCain, James M. Inhoff, Pat Roberts, Alan Wayne Allard, Jeff Sessions, Sue Collins, John Ensign, Jim Talent, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Dole, John Cornyn, Carl Levin, Edward M. Kennedy, Robert C. Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Jack Reed, Daniel Akaka, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Mark Dayton, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Mark Pryor, John P. Abizaid, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Marc Warren, L. Paul Bremer, Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Antonio Taguba, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder, George R. Fay, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, David D. McKiernan, Keith Dayton, Stephen A. Cambone, William G. Boykin, Paul Wolfowitz, Marc Warren, Paul Hill, Keith B. Alexander, Richard B. Myers, Nicholas Evan Berg, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Cheney, Barbara G. Fast, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Walter L. Sharp
Physical assault, General
Feb. 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 258
Lieutenant Colonel Robert P. Walters Jr was responsible for augmenting the force protectionand assisting Col. Pappas at Abu Ghraib. His impressions of the prison were as follows; "To be perfectly candid, Sir, the 800th MP Brigade were out of site ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Robert P. Walters Jr, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Feb. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 259
Lt. Col. Edwards was a force provider to the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center. His was an Interrogation Company. It provided interrogators & analyst to the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center, otherwise known as the JIDC. He also ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Thomas Pappas, James T. Edwards, Kinard J. La Fate , Timothy A. Weathersbee, James D. Edwards
Feb. 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 261
Col. describes how he received his assignment to Iraq and the conditions he found at Abu Ghraib prison. He also describes and an incident where he referred an "unauthorized detainee interview" to Gen Pappas and that was eventually given to Capt. ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, John P. Abizaid, Thomas Pappas, Carolyn A. Wood, Barbara G. Fast, Ricardo Sanchez, Steven L. Jordan, Luciana Spencer, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Walter Wojdakowski, Geoffrey D. Miller, Condoleeza Rice, Donald J. Ryder, Michael D. Thompson , Marc Warren
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity
Feb. 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 269
Testimony of Major Anthony Cavallaro, 800th Military Police Brigade. Major Cavallaro described how he came in to his position, and how his unit was deployed to Iraq and on to Abu Ghraib prison. He relates his understanding of a detainee shooting ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Paul Hill, Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder, Anthony Cavallaro, Walter Wojdakowski, Joseph M. Poth , Michael Diamond, Thomas Pappas
Isolation, Nudity
Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 277
Testimony of First Lieutenant Lewis C. Raeder, Platoon Leader, 372nd Military Police Company. 1st LT. Raeder briefly described how his unit was deployed and then stated "We didn't receive any training at the MOB station; None of the training was ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Lewis C. Raeder, Donald J. Reese , Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
Feb. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 282
Testimony of Command Sergeant Major Joseph P. Arrison, 320th Military Police Battalion. CMS Arrison was not originally deployed with his unit and was “held back” at Ft. Dix and in the rear in Iraq when the incidents of detainee abuse that ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Joseph P. Arrison, John P. Abizaid, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, Henry B. Nelson, Joseph P. Arrison