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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June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 682
Memo of a telephonic interview with Military Intelligence Officer concerning statements made in his sworn statement. Interviewee stated his comments were rumors he overheard and did not believe those comments would be construed as first hand ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 691
Telephone interview of [redacted] arrived in AG on October 20, 2003. Was made section leader of for the Force Protection Tiger Team. Recalled seeing detainees mopping the floors, saw civilian clothed men (told they were Iraqi Police) leading ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abdul Rauf Aliza
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced grooming, Other
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 737
Statement by Lieutenant Colonel documenting an interview with the Commander of the 72nd Military Police Company, who discussed a former unit armorer at Abu Ghraib. This individual reportedly had a "nervous breakdown" after witnessing shootings ...
June 09, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 741
Memo of telephonic interview of an Iraqi Survey Group (ISG) Debriefer. Memo notes that all ISG debriefings were conducted without use of coercive methods.
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 789
The memo contains information learned from a telephonic interview on June 9, 2004. The interviewee was assigned to AG from mid December 2003 to March 2004 as the chief of the medical team assigned to treat security detainees. Stated that he did ...
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
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 836
Interviewee's title and length of assignment are unknown. Interviewee's sworn statement is an explanation of the procedure for processing detainee files.
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 854
This is a memo for the record concerning obtaining an interview from a soldier under multiple lines if investigation in connection to the events at Abu Ghraib Prison. The memo states "SUBJECT: Procedure 15 Interview USAR; On 09 June, 2004 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 876
Interviewee discussed the procedures dealing in Collection Management and Dissemination (CM &D) shop - transfer of detainee information.
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 877
Memo discusses information learned from an telephonic interview. The interviewee discussed email traffic findings, stated nothing in the email traffic discussed detainee abuse.