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
June 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 801
Major General Geoffrey D. Miller's sworn statement. Stated that he was in D.C. briefing the Deputy Secretary of Defense in May 2003 when he met with MG Ron Burgess and spoke with him about Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF GTMO) assisting with ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 803
This statement of Major General Geoffrey D. Miller is a description of how he became aware of difficulties at Abu Ghraib prison and the measures and steps he took to address the matters as they presented to him. He described his discussions with ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 804
Interviewee was the Senior Legal Advisor to LTG Sanchez from June 15, 2003 to May 15, 2004. Noted with respect to interrogations that "we didn't begin to formulate a CJTF-7 command policy until after MG Miller's visit. . . . I believe that MG ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast, Walter Wojdakowski, George R. Fay
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 805
Memo provides transcript from Procedure 15 interview of [redacted]. Described development of Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF-7) Policy to regulate interrogation operations. Stated, "[w]e wanted interrogation plans to be comprehensive and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Thomas Pappas
DOD | ACLU-RDI 806
Interviewee was assigned to AG around January 2004 as the Operational Lawyer to the Combined Joint Task Force 7 staff. Described the development of the CJTF-7 policy to regulate interrogation operations, described understanding of Jan 2003 ICRC ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, George R. Fay
May 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 807
Interviewee, Barbara G. Fast's sworn statement regarding conditions in AG. MG Fast reported to Combined Joint Task Force 7 on July 29, 2003 assigned to C2 in Badgdad. Fast's statement provides a general description of AG environment (leadership, ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Barbara G. Fast, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Walter Wojdakowski, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Use of phobias
July 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 808

[Partially unreadable] Interview of MG Barbara G. Fast's July 20, 2004 Statement re: AG. Interviewed by LTG Jones and MG Fay. Fay explained there was pressure for interrogators to perform, but stated did not believe there was pressure to ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Stephen A. Cambone, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Antonio Taguba, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, L. Paul Bremer, Geoffrey D. Miller, Keith B. Alexander, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, William G. Boykin, James R. Schlesinger, Albert T. Church, George R. Fay, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John M. Custer, III, John P. Abizaid
Physical assault, Other
June 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 819
[Handwritten, at times illegible] Interviewee was a member of Military Intelligence arrived to AG on or about October 24, 2003, answered that he/she never witnessed detainee abuse or sexual assault. Interviewee did attest to the nudity of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Thomas Pappas
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Sexual, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Nudity, Forced physical training
May 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 824
Interviewee was assigned to AG in early November 2003 as an interrogator. Interviewee discussed the use of dogs, but stated Lieutenant General (LTG) Sanchez' approval was necessary before used. Interviewee attested to using the dogs, stating, "I ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 827
Memo contains notes from a Procedure 15 interview of official conducted by George Fay and [redacted]. In the memo, the interviewee stated he arrived to AG in early November 2003 as an interrogator. Stated he had no knowledge of detainee abuse, ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay
Physical assault, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual