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 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 760
Memo provides information regarding the interview of an official. Official refused to sign her statement.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay
June 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 779
Memo of a conversation between an unknown interviewee and [redacted]. In the memo, the interviewee discusses methods used to get detainees to talk. Interviewee explained that detainees are captured, blindfolded, yelled at, pushed, in order to ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
June 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 802
Memo provides information from a June 19, 2004 interview of MG Miller. Stated that Fay interviewed Miller on 19 June 2004 and that Miller provided a statement which was recorded by [redacted]. Miller would not sign the statement and stated ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
George R. Fay, Geoffrey D. Miller
June 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1182
Investigation of photographs taken of a hooded and flexcuffed detainee in a stress position with a U.S. soldier simulating sodomy on him with a broomstick. Investigation shows that the detainees were not put into the stress positions for reasons ...
May 16, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Physical assault, Sexual, Stress positions, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2534
Sworn statement of a Colonel regarding detention procedures and policies at Abu Ghraib prison. He stated "I would want to know what we were getting out of the detainees and is anything coming out of them. If not, ... either release them or get ...
June 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2577
Sworn statement by an assistant platoon commander in charge of maintaining a temporary holding facility and providing "over-watch for tactical interrogations." Discusses detainee holding and interrogation practices. States, "The most aggressive ...
June 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3599
DOS Cable from the Kuwait Embassy to Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell, regarding a Kuwaiti citizen(s) being held by the Coalition in Iraq.
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Frank C. Urbancic, Jr., Natalie E. Brown
June 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4038
Icon and email indicate that a file titled "state comments on torture day statement" is attached.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Katherine M. Gorove
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Michael G. Kozak
Shahnaz Gheibi, Katherine M. Gorove, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Michael G. Kozak, Sharon E. Ahmad, John B. Bellinger, III
June 21, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5099
CIA copy of RFE/RL report compiled by Kathleen Ridolfo listing descriptions of various armed groups in Iraq.
June 21, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5100
CIA copy of RFE/RL report compiled by Kathleen Ridolfo listing descriptions of various political groups and parties in Iraq.