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 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 670
Sworn statement of a Captain, Commander of the 72nd Military Police Company who was deployed to Abu Ghraib prison from May 23, 2003 until October 15, 2003. The Captain stated his mission was to prepare the prison for transition to Iraqi control. ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity, Other
June 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 727
This Sergeant was assigned to Abu Ghraib prison from May 22, 2003 to November 4, 2003. The Sergeant stated "MPs never used physical force, withheld food, humiliated or otherwise abused detainees as a control measure. Military Police (MP) were ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
June 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 729
This Captain, a Military Police (MP) Platoon Leader with the 72nd Military Police Company was assigned to Abu Ghraib prison from May 21, 2003 to late October 2003. The Capt. stated "I was one of the first soldiers on the ground and helped set up ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Stress positions, Nudity, Forced physical training
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 759
Interviewee was the Team Chief of the Tiger Team from GTMO assigned to AG. Vaguely recalled discussion of an incident in which an interpreter walked out of an interrogation.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, George R. Fay
Other
June 06, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 775
Army Specialist assigned to Abu Ghraib prison identifies U.S. personnel in photos depicting alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison November - December 2003.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
General, Physical assault
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 816
Interviewee (title and length of assignment in AG is unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement identifies various individuals. [Information redacted].
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 820
Interviewee (title and length of assignment in AG unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement identified individuals involved with detainee abuse. One picture depicts a room without a mattress and a blood stained floor with drag marks.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 835
Interviewee was assigned to AG from May 23, 2003 to October 15, 2003 as the Iraqi Survey Group of the 72 Military Police Company. Interviewee recalled an incident where [redacted] had several detainees moved into the sun. Later, the detainees ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas
Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 843
Memo discusses that [redacted] maintained old operations files/records that detail detainee movement within Tier 1.
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 858
Interviewee was assigned to AG from May 2003 to November 2003 as a Platoon Leader, responsible for daytime guard operations. Interviewee stated, "I observed MI use some stress positions to include detainees holding their arms out for extended ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions, Nudity